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[on Delphine Seyrig] I became quite good friends with Delphine as she and I shared a dressing room. She was an ardent feminist and she asked me to go with her to visit the Refuge Centre in Chiswick that Erin Pizzey had set up for victims of domestic violence - Delphine wanted to set up a similar centre in Paris.I remember the visit being a sombre experience. Someone had also given me a copy of the book Scum Manifesto written by Valerie Solanas (she was the woman who later made a murder attempt on Andy Warhol) which I hadn't yet read and which was very difficult to get hold of. Delphine asked if she could borrow it and return the copy to me from Paris. I never got the book back and consequently have never read it!

[on The Passenger (1975)] There was a very basic script, but a lot of the time I was just staring out of a window. I was very good at that! He [Michelangelo Antonioni] loathed explanations and cut them wherever possible so the film is almost silent. You'd work not knowing what you were doing. I thought, if he's unhappy with what I'm doing he will tell me. On set, though, he wouldn't really talk to you directly, but would often send over another person who would say: 'The maestro would like you to do this or that.' How lovely to be called maestro!