Quotes by Richard Lester

At one point I was doing a live television Western five half hours a week with horses and stunt men and it was a nightmare. The reason that this is apposite is that it accustomed me a) to work quickly b) to work with many cameras and c) to be hysterical. And I've carried that with me in my life and work.

Hard Day's Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we'd even finished shooting - The advance sales on the album - the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film.

I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day.

Nervousness was never something I would ever associate with the Beatles ever. A Hard Day's Night was relatively unscathed by marijuana, but even then they were quite relaxed about it.

The Beatles used pot as a continuing device to amuse themselves because film-making didn't amuse them any longer. We had some wonderful times, but it had all become a bit of a giggle. The novelty of being around a film crew had obviously worn off and pot was there to alleviate the bordeom of hanging around between takes.

The title came rather early in one of Ringo's more tired and emotional moments.

When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday.