So my first real entry into the British film industry came with Tony Richardson and Woodfall, after the somewhat abortive efforts of As Dark as the Night and Beat Girl. And Taste of Honey. He asked me to do Taste of Honey in 1961, but Taste of Honey was actually ready to be filmed one year previously, when I wasn't asked to do it, when he had, I think, Freddie Francis marked down as cameraman, and, having already made The Entertainer and... and, Look Back In Anger. But the... Tony wanted to make Taste of Honey as an all-location movie which Saturday Night and Sunday Morning wasn't. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was, in that sense, a conventional movie with a studio section and a... and a location section in Nottingham. And, the distributors, the money people, wouldn't let him make it as an all-location film, because he said... they... he said, 'Well, you say', they said, 'you say you don't want sunshine, you... you... you're going to film in the rain and all that. You want a grey atmosphere for... for Manchester and all that', and they wouldn't believe him. And they said, 'Ah, yes, well you say that now, but later on you'll be stuck up there and you'll... you'll see well after all we would rather have sunshine and we'll be... we'll be carrying the baby'.

So that was... so... he found it impossible. But then subsequently, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, which was shot in '59 and released in '60, I believe, was such a big success. I think it ran on both the cinema circuits which was quite unusual in those days. There were three main cinema circuits and one was sort of linked to Fox and Warner Brothers and... and what-have-you, and the other were linked to Paramount and MGM, and so on. And they all had their set suppliers as it were. But Saturday Night and Sunday Morning actually ran on both of the circuits, one after the other. So there was a lot of money available, and Tony could afford, by cross colat... cross... I can never say that word... cross-collateralization of the profits of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning against any possible loss on Taste of Honey on... yes on Taste of Honey, he could go ahead. So we went ahead and made A Taste of Honey as an all-location film. And it was offered to me because, by that time, Freddie Francis was being... doing something else. But it was the start of a very... very successful collaboration, albeit a brief one. Because the three films that I made with Tony for Woodfall, were all made within the space of 18 months. And then he went off to America.