Clockwork Quotes

(When asked what his favorite Stanley Kubrick film was): "A Clockwork Orange (1971)! I never saw any of the others."

(Reflecting on A Clockwork Orange (1971)): "It`s a remarkable film that has survived as such a classic and I`d be a raving idiot not to be thrilled with that."

When I was reporting crime ... I never had the sense of clockwork conspiracies, or some kind of imposing order of evil. What I sensed was things just sort of falling apart. That`s my sense of how crime works, that it`s not any kind of calculated evil driven by the devil, but just control disintegrating. Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness. Davenport does represent order in this.

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.

I`d worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.

George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about!