The only great actor I have worked with who was not in any sense a star - there was no great publicity about him, no scandal about him, none of the attitude to stardom.

He brought you face to face with the unfathomable. No actor summoned with such authority the mysterious depths of human experience.

Beneath the gentle modesty of his behavior lay the absolute assurance of a born artist.

I feel incredibly lucky to have discovered early in my life, practically when I was a child, that I could do something that in the end I finally wanted to do a…