How wonderful it was to sit on a set with Norman Mailer and get to know him.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable.
Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.
I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.
Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going.
Meeting Peter Dinklage was just great.
And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.
George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.
I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically if it had not been for the horrid boils on the back of his neck.
It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I'd have killed myself.