I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished

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 don’t like to rehearse. And I couldn’t understand how you could go through eight weeks of rehearsal, without exhausting every possibility. To the point where, you know, you would just lie gasping on the floor!

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

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.