But the sad part of it – I don't want to go into too many details – I was losing more and more of his assistance. And because I had an incredibly close relationship with Stanley I started taking all his mistakes – or which I thought were, you know, reckless decisions – on my shoulders, and sometimes going to the actors and apologising, you know, which had nothing to do with me, it was Stanley. And also what happened, I was trying to find these locations – wasn't only English locations, it was also Irish locations and French locations, and German locations, all in... in a little bit of Ireland, you know.

And I found that he liked the location, but when the scene didn't work I had to find a different location, so I was really getting completely exhausted. And, you know, what he did, of course, he said to me one day in... in the car, 'What would happen if I closed down the production for six weeks, what would Warner's do, and we get our act together more, and so on?' I said, 'Well, you would probably be the only director that I know who could get away with it'. And that's what he did, he closed down, fired everybody except me, to get the act more together, but by this time I was… Letitzia came to... to visit me on... and she was seriously concerned. And, you know, we were very close to the Kubricks, in any case, and they spent so many evenings here, and Letitzia said, 'You know, Ken is not well', and he said, 'Well, I think you are right, but whatever you do, get him treated by… get him the right sort of medical attention'.