If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.

If we had written Tristan in the true vernacular the audience would have been very small. It wouldn't have even been Shakespearean. It would have been so Celtic you wouldn't understand what was going on.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

I don't ever blink, honestly.

There's great wine from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile and, of course, California. But there's nothing like a really great French wine, they're so well balanced. The better the wine, the less you feel the effects I think.

And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.