He's "happy as a pig in shit". "This is what I really enjoy, working with film-makers," he says.

And he pays generous tribute to Noble who, he says, actively encouraged him . . . to venture further into the classics with Romeo and Juliet, Othello and Henry IV. "Speaking purely as a director, I was happy as a pig in shit."

"I am as happy as a pig in shit—you can quote me on that—doing what I'm doing at the moment."

Beauty products are the one thing that I waste my money on. Give me a hundred bucks and plop me in the nearest Duane Reade, and I’m happy as a pig in shit.

Happy as a pig in shit

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