I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.

There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying - "I don't wanna do it. The part's too small." And he sent it back to me, he said, "You shouldn't read the lover. You should read the father.

God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.