From The Observer:
‘What did it get me? It got me the world. But you do pay a price when all your dreams come true.’ Someone interrupts for an autograph, and it’s a while before I can prompt him on what the price was, and a while again before his careful voice falls a little softer. ‘Well. My home. My friends. My country. My kitchen. My profession.
‘Oh, I enjoy the filming, the travelling - hell, the places and the things I’ve seen, who would have dreamed, I would never have dreamed, how can I be ungrateful for that? And the writing, much of the writing. But what did Henry Miller say about being a writer - something about it being your job to betray the whole human race.
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