It was also my first encounter with my good friend George Antonakis, whose doing this filming here today, who became my assistant. Well, first of all he was an electrician working for Finos, and there was an occasion where he literally put his hand in the fire for me, where there was some problem with the electricity, and he had to work at the back of the main studio electric supply board and there wasn't a way of isolating it. There was no main switch. You'd have to go to some telegraph pole some miles away in order to cut the current. So he put on some rubber gloves and he worked there without having the current turned off. So I say he's somebody who put his hand in the fire for me, as he did many times, because that time he did it literally.

And then on that film I had another assistant. I had the same assistant as I had on The Girl in Black who was a Greek from Russia. But on the second film he made some terrible mistake and Cacoyannis went wild and he fired him and he took somebody else. And then from the third film onwards, George became my assistant and he did all the other films as my assistant. And then he became a cameraman and then his son became a cameraman. Been going on for 40 years.