What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.

My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!

At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like.

Vancouver is the most wonderful place. I put it up there with San Francisco and Sydney as a kind of magic sort of harbor city.

I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.

It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.