"I don't think," said he, "that we shall succeed in finding out a system of directing them.

A Moor with three others took the shortest, without directing us to follow him; so we marched forwards we knew not whither, through woods and over rocks, without sleep or any other refreshment: at noon the next day we discovered that we were near the field of salt.

But once rehearsals were underway, he soon realized that directing it was an extension of everything he had done previously in his career.

Resume: 1969 Oscar winner for Midnight Cowboy; recent films include Cold Comfort Farm and Eye for an Eye; also directed Sweeney Todd for Showtime Next: The Next Best Thing, with Rupert Everett and Madonna Out in action: Has never shied from gay projects, from directing 1971's Sunday, Bloody Sunday, featuring mainstream cinema's first romantic gay kiss, to acting in TV's The Lost Language of Cranes, playing a gay man

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