I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.

What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family.

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

What is passion? Passion is surely the becoming of a person.

I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with.

And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?