James Stewart

I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.

I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.

Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!