I didn't feel confident at all. But then I never feel confident. I felt in a real state of panic. But then you learn you just have to get on with it and make the thing. He said, 'Good.
Anecdotes glint throughout the book.
Mike Figgis recounts how Tommy Lee Jones, who was in Figgis's first picture, compared the length of his trailer with Melanie Griffith's and wryly noted that hers was a foot longer. Suddenly I was a boy sitting on my parents' kitchen table. The three interviews that are most rewarding are by three of the most individualistic directors in the book. Frears tells how he was first enamored of the theater, began directing plays at Cambridge, and eventually connected with the Royal Court Theatre in its highest days. Then Lindsay Anderson of that theater assigned him to be assistant to the film-maker Karel Reisz, who was directing a play, after which Reisz invited Frears to assist him on a film.