I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.

I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.