The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.

In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision.

I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.

I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.

If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant.