So, They Had This 40-odd Year Friendship

Usually, Those People Don't Even Like Actors And They Can't Wait Until They Get In The Cutting Room. They Kind Of Break Down In Categories: Directors Who Like To Be Surprised And Some Of Them Abhor Being Surprised. As Far As Directing, We All Direct When We're Acting In Movies... Every Single One Of Us.

I Knew I Finally Made It As A Performer When I Began Hearing Rumors That I Was Gay.

Well, 45-odd Years Of Doing It, So We All Pile Up The Things We Like About Directors And The Things We Don't Like About Directors. And Sometimes They're Very Similar.

Tom [courtenay] And Albert Finney Met Ron Harwood On The Dresser, So That's How It Started. It's A Wonderful Documentary. It's Called Tosca's Kiss And Mr Hardwood Told Me About It When I Asked Him What The Genesis Was. It Was Made In 1983 And Verdi, Who Was Rich And Successful, Toward The End Of His Life Decided To Build A Mansion For Himself In Milan, Where He Lived, And He Stipulated That When He Died Opera Singers And Musicians - Because He Knew So Many Who Were No Longer Playing At The Scala And Some Were Poor - Could Live There.

The Trumpet Player, Ronnie Hughes, Has Still Got His Chops Today But For Some Strange Reason The Culture Doesn't Call Him Because He's 83-years-old. And These People Are In Their 70s And 80s And 90s And Came With Such Verve Every Day And Would Still Be Shooting These 10 And 12 Hour Days. So, That In Itself Made This An Extraordinarily Special Occasion For All Of Us. It Wasn't A Job For The Crew After A Few Days, It Took On Another Tone.