However Good A Communicator A Director Is,

I Don't Think It's Aiming At Gags, I Think The Humour Is Woven Into It. It's Part Of How The Characters Operate And How They Deal With Disaster Because They're Worldly Enough To Have A Bit Of Irony And Wryness About Their Own Circumstances. So, I Think The Humour Comes Out Of That.

I Think The Dictator Director Is Based Upon Stories From The Past. I Don't Think Anyone Would Put Up With It Now. There Are A Lot Of People On A Film Set With Egos. So, To Be Completely Authoritarian, You'd Probably Have To Have A Reputation Like Kurosowa Or Somebody To Get Away With It.

I Have A Great Deal Of Respect For The Craft, I Don't Know How Much Respect It Has For Me. But It's A Precision Process. Doing It On Stage Would Be, I Think, Terrifying. Doing It On Film Has Its Own Difficulties, Because Film Is Not Conducive To Spontaneity. You Might Have A Run Through And Get A Few Chuckles At Eight O'clock In The Morning, But You Don't Keep Laughing At The Same Thing All Day Long.

I Absolutely Don't Care About My Looks And I'm So Used To Them That I Wouldn't Change A Thing. I Would End Up Missing My Defects.

The English People, A Lot Of Them, Would Not Be Able To Understand A Word Of Spoken Shakespeare. There Are People Who Do And I'm Not Denying They Exist. But It's A Far More Philistine Country Than People Think.