There's lovely dialogue in that film. The hostess, for instance, to break the silence which this incident causes, says to the English woman... There's an English woman in the... among the dinner party guests, called Lady Cora. Sir Nigel and Lady Cora, two English people. And the hostess, in order to break the spell says, 'Do you know... do you happen to know, Lady Cora, the meaning and derivation of the term bric-a-brac?' And Lady Cora says, As a matter of fact, I do'. And then she turns and says to her neighbour and says, 'Damn, stupid question'. It's full of stuff like that. It's really a laugh.

The script for that was being written by these two people, who were writing quite independently, and they were continuing to write while we were filming. And some of the stuff that was coming out, they said, 'You know, we're going to insert this into the film, was very complicated'. Like there was a scene that was written subsequently where there's supposed to be a movie projector running, unattended, in one of the rooms with a loop of film. And of course, not only do you have to film that, but you also have to film the film that is going to be projected. So I said, 'Look, you know, we've got five weeks, but how are we going to do all this? We've got our hands full up to now', as it is now. And there was a moment when we... we'd walk in... we came back to our hotel, we were staying in a sort of small hotel somewhere along Route 90, or whatever it is up there, and once we came back from work and all the luggage was piled up in the car park. Because the owner, who hadn't been paid, looked up, sort of, found out... he said, 'What is the credit rating of this company?', and the answer came back, the credit rating of this company doesn't exist, it's zero. So they put all our luggage in the car park and we couldn't get into our rooms till he came up with some cash. But he did. Also the salaries were late one week and the... Merchant, who wasn't providing the money, he was just instrumental in providing the money, said to this electrician, Bobby Vee, a lovely man... His name is Robert Vercruse, but he's known to everybody as Bobby Vee. He came to Ismail, and Ismail said, 'Look I've never welched on anybody, don't worry, it'll be perfectly all right, I guarantee you the money will be found immediately'. And Bobby said, 'Look, Izzy' – he called him Izzy, which Ismail disliked intensely – he said, 'Look, Izzy, don't take it personal, but you see, I have this framed cheque on my wall'.