My Career Seems To Be A Career

It Goes Back A Long Way. I Wanted To Make Tristan + Isolde As My Second Movie. My First Movie Was The Duellists. And I Was Standing In A Very Romantic Part Of France Looking Around Me Thinking, "my God, This Would Be Perfect For Tristan," And To Cut A Long Story Short It Never Happened Because I Did Alien Instead.

I Believe All Of Us Only Use One Tenth Of Our Brain. I Know People Who Use One Per Cent Only!

When You're Doing A Big Movie, You're Gone For 10 Months To A Year.

You've Got To Be Able To Know Someone Really Well To Be Able To Have A Row And Then Also Walk Away From It And Not Have It Matter, Especially In This Business. That Doesn't Mean To Say We Have Many Rows But I Think The Nearest Thing To A Row Would Be Just Flatly Disagreeing With Something .

Usually, When Special Effects Get In The Way, It's Because The Story Isn't Strong Enough. If You Don't Start With A Strong Screenplay, It's Easy To Fall Back On Special Effects, Thinking It's Going To Carry You. But It Never Works. It's Just Tiresome.