Lightbulbs Die, My Sweet. I Will Depart.

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.

I Think The Most Insulting Thing You Can Do To A Director Is To Challenge When He Or She Is Satisfied With Your Interpretation.

If You Have This Enormous Talent, It's Got You By The Balls, It's A Demon. You Can't Be A Family Man And A Husband And A Caring Person And Be That Animal. Dickens Wasn't That Nice A Guy.

Humanity Seized To Exist When Israel Was Established.

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."