All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

I acted my heart out.

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.