We shot ['Sailcloth'] five days down in Cornwall, and you couldn't have asked for a more beautiful place. It was a couple of tough days at sea, but when I say tough it was still enjoyable.

There is always a better choice that you were unable to quite touch with a single stroke. Even in acting, there comes a point, like a painting, where you have to say, "That's it. I can't go any further with it." And sometimes, you say, "I'm really pleased that that's where it's finished up." Other times, you think, "I don't think I really quite got there, but I haven't got time to go any further." Rather reluctantly, you have to say "That's it."

Lotte Lenya was all emotion. She wasn't anything but emotion. She was not an intellectual.

When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no worry about it.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

We're all far too afraid of being so arrogant to say "Either you can or you can't."

We shot ['Sailcloth'] five days down in Cornwall, and you couldn't have asked for a more beautiful place. It was a couple of tough days at sea, but when I say tough it was still enjoyable.