(On having to do filming on two different projects at once, Mirrors
(1985) (TV) and "Cover Up" (1984)): I'd get up at 5 for Mirrors, be on
that set all day, start work on Cover Up at 7 P.M., work until 2 A.M.,
and then start the whole cycle over again. A couple of times they had
to fly me from one set to another by helicopter. At one point, I called
my father in Australia to bitch about this backbreaking schedule. Dad
said, "Let me tell you a war story. In the Battle of Britain, I fought
the Luftwaffe every day from 3 A.M. until midnight. My valet had to get
me up after two hours' sleep. He'd be court-martialled if he didn't
have my signature on his wake-up slip. And that went on for months. So
don't complain, son." I stopped complaining.
