Next To That Kid, We All Look

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 Trumpet Player, Ronnie Hughes, Has Still Got His Chops Today But For Some Strange Reason The Culture Doesn't Call Him Because He's 83-years-old. And These People Are In Their 70s And 80s And 90s And Came With Such Verve Every Day And Would Still Be Shooting These 10 And 12 Hour Days. So, That In Itself Made This An Extraordinarily Special Occasion For All Of Us. It Wasn't A Job For The Crew After A Few Days, It Took On Another Tone.

Tom [courtenay] And Albert Finney Met Ron Harwood On The Dresser, So That's How It Started. It's A Wonderful Documentary. It's Called Tosca's Kiss And Mr Hardwood Told Me About It When I Asked Him What The Genesis Was. It Was Made In 1983 And Verdi, Who Was Rich And Successful, Toward The End Of His Life Decided To Build A Mansion For Himself In Milan, Where He Lived, And He Stipulated That When He Died Opera Singers And Musicians - Because He Knew So Many Who Were No Longer Playing At The Scala And Some Were Poor - Could Live There.

One Of The Things You Can Do As An Actor, Is Compensate For The Things You Can't Do In Life.

The Better You Are As A Parent, The Richer The Nest You've Built, The More Difficult It Is For Your Kids To Leave. So They Have To Invent Things To Dislike About You. And They're Brilliant At It.