James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.

I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.

Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.

I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people.

I went to Kerala in India, to learn Ayurveda, which was fantastic.

What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.

The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.