I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.

Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.

You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.

I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.

I spent my life in the library reading books.