That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.

Making a film is like going down a mine-once you've started you bid a metaphoricalgoodbye to the daylight and the outside world for the duration.

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.