I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.

I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.

I'm not comfortable with walking the red carpet in a tuxedo and seeing all the women with their boobs pushed up and all the men dressed as penguins - particularly when the subject of your film is the nature of violence and humanity.

But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.

I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.