A lot of it, as it is in any job in life, is being in the right place at the right time.
On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing.
That's another thing about today's stars that makes me glad that I'm not doing it any more. The stars come with ten people all around them. I don't know how you ever make any personal contact with them.
John Schlesinger had one of his friends designing it and he had never done a film before. Ten days before it started, they didn't have any costumes. I was rung up and joined up.
I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.
God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.
I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all.
I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.
I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions.