England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.