I Don't Like The Fact

You Spend So Much Of Your Life Basing Yourself On What You Think Other People Think Of You. Then You Realise That Maybe One Of The Purposes Of Life Is Not To Care.

Money Is Another Pressure. I'm Not Complaining, I'm Just Saying That There's A Certain Luxury In Having No Money. I Spent Ten Years In New York Not Having It, Not Worrying About It. Suddenly You Have It, Then You Worry, Where Is It Going? Am I Doing The Right Thing With It?

I Envy People Who Can Just Look At A Sunset. I Wonder How You Can Shoot It. There Is Nothing More Grotesque To Me Than A Vacation.

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.

Tom [courtenay] And Albert Finney Met Ron Harwood On The Dresser, So That's How It Started. It's A Wonderful Documentary. It's Called Tosca's Kiss And Mr Hardwood Told Me About It When I Asked Him What The Genesis Was. It Was Made In 1983 And Verdi, Who Was Rich And Successful, Toward The End Of His Life Decided To Build A Mansion For Himself In Milan, Where He Lived, And He Stipulated That When He Died Opera Singers And Musicians - Because He Knew So Many Who Were No Longer Playing At The Scala And Some Were Poor - Could Live There.