Actually, I was rock climbing on this film at 7 in the morning. It was quite unique! But in any event, the colour of the leaves disturbed me so we had to work on that. On the other hand, I didn't want to drench it in a kind of depressing tone.

I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can't burn him.

Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.