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Somehow I Think It Was Declared Very Early On That I Was The - If Not The Black Sheep Of The Family, Not A Very Good Student.

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.

I Decided A Long Time Ago But Sometimes It Takes You 40 Years To Get Around To Doing Something - And That's The Truthful Answer.

I Think We All Felt It On This Movie - Crew And Cast. You Never Know When You're Making A Movie... No One Is Saying In The Middle Of Casablanca That This Is Going To Be A Classic. The Lead Actors Had Turned It Down And I Think They Wound Up With B-list Actors At The Time.

We're Not Allowed In The Cutting Room - And That's Extraordinary. So, When A Director Is Asking For Certain Nuances And Colours And We Feel That They're Phoney, But We Do It Because The Director Asks For It, That's The One That They Pick In The Cutting Room. And I Contend That When You See A Movie With Bad Acting, Don't Blame The Actor... Blame Those Guys In The Cutting Room Because They Like That Take.