I Always Felt Thrilled And Amazed That

I Knew All About Edward Viii's Abdication, George Vi Becoming The King And Having A Stammer, But Nothing About How He Got Rid Of It.

I Suddenly Became Aware Over The Last Couple Of Years That I'm In My Sixties. I Never Thought About It. I Thought I'd Better Start Acting My Age Or Find Roles That Are Going To Be Interesting To Me In The Sexagenarian Repertoire, Because It's Not What You Do In Your Forties Or Fifties.

Within Our Culture, Every School Has A Swimming Pool. We Lived On The Coast. People Swam In The Surf. It's A Very Sporty Nation And At That Particular Time Anyone Who Had An Artistic Bent Was Very Much An Outsider. So If You Liked Reading Or Ideas Or Playing The Piano Then Your Dad Viewed You As A Sissy, Basically.

There's Often Rarely Any Dialogue In A Sex Scene. With Your Fellow Actor, It's Good To Talk About What The Unspoken Dialogue Is, That's Happening In The Scene. You've Got To Play Something Rather Than Feel Self-conscious Or Exposed.

If In The Sex Scene You Happen To Be Naked In Front Of A Lot Of Other People You've Just Got To Put That Aside, In The Same Way That You Have To Put That Aside In A Fully-clothed Intense Dialogue Scene Because You're Entering Into That Particular Imaginative State Of Play.