I've Walked Out Of Films.

One Of The Reasons The Whole Hollywood Way Of Making Films Wouldn't Work For Me Is Because The Way I Operate Would Be Anathema To Anyone Who Wants To Hold A Job Down In Beverly Hills.

I Try And Create For The Audience Something That Relates To Real-life Experience. When You're Meeting Somebody For The First Time, All You Have To Go On Are Your Preconceptions And Your Stereotypes And Whatever Else, But Gradually As You Get To Know Them, They Change. They Become More Three-dimensional, And You Start To See Them In Layers.

It's Important To Be True To The Events, But The Most Important Thing Is To Get To The Essence Of The Experience. Not To Be Bogged Down In An Academic Way By A Notion Of The Truth. First Of All, The Truth Is An Illusive And Spurious Concept.

I Hate Period Films - And There Are Plenty Of Them - Where They Say, "let's Not Do Contemporary Language Because The Audience Won't Understand It;" "let's Not Make The Girls Wear Corsets, Because It's Not Sexy" And All That Sort Of Thing. Gradually It Disintegrates Into A No Man's Land: You Don't Really Believe It's A Period Scene And It Doesn't Feel Like It's Now Because It's Not Now. You Don't Feel It's Quite Real And You Don't Believe In It.

I've Long Since Stopped Worrying About How I'm Portrayed In The Press Because Ultimately It's Not That Important. Everyone Who Knows Me Knows I Do What I Do With The Greatest Integrity.