I Didn't Want To Start Relying On

I Used Jimmy To Give Me What I Needed To Keep Going And To Know That I Was On The Right Path With It. I Thought I Saw Jimmy's Soul All The Time We Worked. He Never Covered His Soul And I Never Covered Mine. We Saw Into Each Other's Souls, Very Definitely.

The Work I Did In Vertigo Meant Nothing If No One Cared About The Movie. Luckily, Vertigo Had A Revival And People Had Begun To Recognize There Was Something Special And It Gained In Reputation. But It Just As Well Could Have Ended Up Rotting In Film Cans Somewhere.

The Script Was Always The Most Important Thing To Me And I Loved The Script. For One Thing, I've Always Admired Trees. I Just Worship Them. Think What Trees Have Witnessed, What History, Such As Living Through The Civil War, Yet They Still Survive.

I Always Felt Jimmy Was Trapped In Hollywood. He Felt It Himself. He Loved Aviation So Much And He Wanted To Be Able To Do More Of That. He Somehow Just Got Stuck Here.

We Only Did Probably Two, Three Takes On Every Scene We Did, At The Most.