I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.

I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.

The very first film I ever saw was during the war. My mother took me, I must have been about 4, and that was Beau Geste, with Gary Cooper.

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.

Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just heaven.

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

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.