I Believe - Though I

You're Always In A Tunnel That You Can't See The End Of. But There's Something That Took Place On This Movie That I Don't Think We Expected And That Was That Once We Decided That The Entire Cast Would Be Real Retired Opera Singers And Retired Musicians... And These People The Phone Hadn't Rung For Them For 20 Or 40 Years Even Though They Can Deliver.

We're Not Allowed In The Cutting Room - And That's Extraordinary. So, When A Director Is Asking For Certain Nuances And Colours And We Feel That They're Phoney, But We Do It Because The Director Asks For It, That's The One That They Pick In The Cutting Room. And I Contend That When You See A Movie With Bad Acting, Don't Blame The Actor... Blame Those Guys In The Cutting Room Because They Like That Take.

Canada Is Like A Nice Family Living Over A Biker Bar . . . They Keep Telling The Downstairs Neighbors To Keep Down The Noise, People Are Trying To Sleep.

I Think 'retirement' Goes Hand In Hand With People Who Make A Living By Having A 'job.' I Don't Think We-the .00001 Percent Of The Population Who Are So Fortunate To Love Passionately What We Do-consider It A 'job.

So, Most Of It Was Done Over The Phone. But One Of The First Things I Did As A Director, Because It's One Of The First Things You Should Do, Even Though Most Don't, Is To Ask Good Actors Who They Think Is Right For The Part. They Know Better Than Anybody. But Without Missing A Beat Maggie Said Pauline Collins. I Didn't Know Pauline Because I Hadn't Seen Shirley Valentine, But Then I Saw This Thing That She Did With Woody Allen [you Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger], In Which She Was Wonderful As A Psychic, And I Said To Her On The Phone: "the Dialogue Seemed Improvised."