“And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we ...” — Richard Attenborough Quote

“And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.”

“David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands.”

“If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.”

“Teachers are heroes.”

“I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today's heroes to move forward in the future. So guys like... William Bradford and William Wallace, the Bravehearts, the Patriots, the Pilgrims. There are so many of those people throughout history... whose stories have just never been told.”

“Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.”