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We Were Doing It Under The Most Extraordinary Circumstances, But The First Out Of The Tent In The Morning Would Be David Lean. He Said To Me On The Very First Day Of Shooting, Pete, This Is The Beginning Of A Great Adventure.

I Found Him Perhaps The Least Terrifying Man I've Ever Met In The Theater—because At First Glance I Could See Through Him And He Could See Through Me, And He Knew That I Knew That He Knew. Look, Love, I've Been Bullied All My Life By Bigger Experts Than Larry Olivier, I Can Assure You, And He's Just Got To Get In Line.

I Tell My Children To Avoid Theatre And Go Into Cinema And Tv.

It Distresses Us To Return Work Which Is Not Perfect.

Many Years Ago I Sent An Old, Beloved Jacket To A Cleaner, The Sycamore Cleaners. It Was A Leather Jacket Covered In Guinness And Blood And Marmalade, One Of Those Jobs... And It Came Back With A Little Note Pinned To It, And On The Note It Said, 'it Distresses Us To Return Work Which Is Not Perfect.' So That Will Do For Me. That Can Go On My Tombstone.