The collaboration between a director and an actor, if it is a good one, is extremely intense, and very often there is a touch of aggression—usually from the actor. If you are ordered about for a whole day by a director—to walk and stand and talk, look a certain way, take the lunch break now and finish for the day now (even if spoken by a genius)—there are times when you think: Shoot the man. I want to be free, feel free. I hate him.

Then you let your anger out in small clouds of steam, and everyone knows that it doesn’t mean a thing.