The assistant director quit after one week because it was much too difficult, and for a while I was, effectively, the AD. Eventually they found somebody else. But there weren't... again, it's one of those occasions where there weren't a lot of experienced people around, so I ended up all sorts... wearing all sorts of hats, apart from being the lighting cameraman and the operator. Because they had a wonderful cast of some 20 people, all from the New York stage. When we finished a scene like a piece of the dinner party, or some other scene, they all wondered off into the garden. And I said, 'Whoa, whoa, just a minute, you know, this is the end of this scene, but we've got to go straight on with the next scene. We can't have a long break, we can't afford the time'. So I ended up wearing that hat as well, which became a bit irksome at times. The film was finished on budget and whatever... on schedule and whatever budget there was, because usually Ismail's budgets were something written on the back of an envelope. I don't believe there were any... you know, those budgets they issue, printed forms which go into 27 pages. Never saw anything like that on any Merchant Ivory film. It was always, usually, in my experience, it was a back of the envelope calculation.