[on Jacqueline Bisset] People are inclined to be skeptical about Jacqui
because she's so beautiful. But she has that quality of intelligence
that goes with the face and makes it something more.
[on Raquel Welch] She isn't an actress of fathomless talent, but she is
very professional and hard-working. It's just the strange way people
are brought up in America to promote themselves before the character.
[on the casting of Steven Keats as Jackie Brown in The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)] We were lucky to get Keats. We desperately needed someone to play Jackie Brown and hadn't found anyone to fit the role. At the last minute, we discovered Keats doing theater work and cast him.