“I don't want to do something for the sake of it. I am prepared to wait. If I wait until I am buried, too bad.”

On regularly being asked to re-make Death Wish http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5315068.stm.

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English film director, film producer, film editor and scree… 1935–2013

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