Life's too short to be working with divas.
So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.
The fact that someone came forward and offered $1.25 million to make a movie was astonishing. We were also allowed to keep many of the original stage cast.
To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.
We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.
Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I've never looked back.
Well, when you do something like Rocky which is indefinable somehow, it always becomes difficult to lose that.
With the film around for 25 years and the show being around even longer - still running and continuing to fill house all around the word - it's really an exciting and wonderful thing to be part of that.
Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.
Yes, but I think the big thing for everyone is to wear what they want and what suits them.
