I was the uninvited guest to the British film industry. Nobody wanted
to know me. I knew I wanted to make films, but I would see these
serious-looking guys going around with scripts under their arm,
spending three or four years trying to get their films made. I couldn't
be like that - I had to make a living and I wanted to get behind a
camera and shout "action". So I would go out and shoot something like
L'école du sexe (1969) - God, that was a terrible film - and a few weeks later
every cinema in the country would be showing it.
