Lightbulbs die, my sweet. I will depart.

So, most of it was done over the phone. But one of the first things I did as a director, because it's one of the first things you should do, even though most don't, is to ask good actors who they think is right for the part. They know better than anybody. But without missing a beat Maggie said Pauline Collins. I didn't know Pauline because I hadn't seen Shirley Valentine, but then I saw this thing that she did with Woody Allen [You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger], in which she was wonderful as a psychic, and I said to her on the phone: "The dialogue seemed improvised."

Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn't succeed immediately.

I think one of the things you have to be aware of as an actor is that if you come on the set and see the director standing there mouthing all the words while a scene is going on, that's usually a very bad sign because it means the director has already shot the scene in his head. He knows exactly the rhythm and the nuances that he wants delivered in the line and you're not going to dissuade him.

One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.

It's true what they say about failure. You don't learn from success.

I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast-feed.