We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.
The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.
Despite the rain, it's still raining here at Old Trafford.
Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.
Once the shooting starts, we don't mind whether it is 43 degrees plus or minus 6 degrees: we just keep working.
I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
When I was running across the country, I was doing 40 or 50 miles a day in sleeting snow with zero visibility for five or six days in a row. Ten to 12 hours of running in that is monotony beyond belief.
Shooting all day in the rain is not where you want to be.
I hate being cold and I hate being wet and around 80% percent of this film I was cold and another 60% I was cold and wet, so it wasn't the best shoot for me.
Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.