So, They Had This 40-odd Year Friendship

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.

Usually, Those People Don't Even Like Actors And They Can't Wait Until They Get In The Cutting Room. They Kind Of Break Down In Categories: Directors Who Like To Be Surprised And Some Of Them Abhor Being Surprised. As Far As Directing, We All Direct When We're Acting In Movies... Every Single One Of Us.

We All Believe What We Read. I Read How Tom Cruise And I Were Two Big Egos Holding Up Shooting. I Know That Isn't True - But If I Wasn't Making A Movie With Him And I Just Picked Up The Paper, I'd Believe It. That's Interesting, Isn't It?

If You Can Get Out There And Say I'm Going To...i'm Willing To Fail At What I Feel Is Right, That's It.

Well First Of All, It's Hard To Shoot A Movie And Break For A Long Time And Then Come Back And Do, In A Sense, One Of The Biggest Scenes That Each Character Had.