Michael Winner (1935–2013) English film director, film producer, film editor and screenwriter
On regularly being asked to re-make Death Wish http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5315068.stm.
“Wait, sir, until I am gone!”
Standard reply to people proposing changes in the running of Oxford University; quoted in Colin Gordon, Beyond the Looking Glass (1982), p. 37
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