Michael On
Michael On
cookbook food good open recipes
Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.
drama writing scripts
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
understanding pleasure
My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
directors actors stage
If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
birthday sad men
I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
views nowhere-to-go remakes
My view is that you should always remake failures because then you've got nowhere to go but up.
growing-up book elephants
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
birthday workout thinking
Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
acting directors planning
You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
competition acting done
Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
long acting asking
You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.
weakness nastiness exposed
I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
acting roles actors
First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
circles actors circle-of-friends
My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.