One time in the late '50s, when Peter Finch, Laurence Harvey, and I were all offered the same movie role - the assumption being that we weren't friends - we marched up to producer Dino De Laurentiis's door and declared in unison, 'We don't think we're suitable for the part.'
I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging.
If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.
It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.
It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.
It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.