“Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know thei...” — Jerry Weintraub Quote

Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.

People don't understand this, but I started very young, and I became very, very successful at a very young age. By the time I was 26 years old, I was a multimillionaire. And I started with nothing. And I was on the road 10, 11 months a year.

If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it.

The budgets are much higher now, it costs more to make a movie and the kids that go to see them are into instant gratification. They want things bigger and bigger. I don't make those kind of movies. I make movies about relationships.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France.

I love filming in Britain.

'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history!

I have three kids in Britain, and I am there at least once a month.