It's True What They Say

I Came In On This Movie After There Had Been A Director And I Came In After Tom Courtenay Had Talked To Ron Harwood About Making A Movie. So, You Know Tom And Albert Finney Had Been Friends Since The Beginning Of Their Career As They Became Stars Around The Same Time - Tom Always Reminds Me That Albert Was First With Saturday Night And Sunday Morning And Then Tom With The Long Distance Runner.

For Me As An American, The Most Painful Aspect Of This Is That I Believe That Administration Has Taken The Events Of 9/11 And Has Manipulated The Grief Of The Country And I Think That's Reprehensible.

One Thing About Being Successful Is That I Stopped Being Afraid Of Dying. Once You're A Star You're Dead Already. You're Embalmed.

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.

The Truth Is, I've Made About 30 Movies In 30 Years, And I've Been Criticized For 30 Years For Not Making More Movies.