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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.

So When I Told My Parents I Wanted To Go Into Acting Because I Was Flunking Out Of My First Year Of Junior College, They Were Relieved That I Had Picked Something Other Than Joining The Army. But I Can't Imagine How They Had High Hopes For Me.

Someone Once Said To Me, 'some Of Us Choose To Live With A Lifeboat Just A Little Bit Out Of Our Reach.' I'd Like To Reach A Point Where I No Longer Bullshit Myself. I Think That's The Natural Human Condition - To Lie To Yourself. Because The Truth Is Painful.

I Stopped Working A Few Years Ago Because I Just Lost A Spark That I'd Had Before. I Thought I'd Just Try Writing, And Maybe Start Directing, But I Did It Very Quietly.

Well, 45-odd Years Of Doing It, So We All Pile Up The Things We Like About Directors And The Things We Don't Like About Directors. And Sometimes They're Very Similar.