Hugh Hudson(1936-2023)

He met his second wife actress Maryam d'Abo when she came to see him about wanting to play the leading role of Jane in his film Greystoke: La légende de Tarzan, seigneur des singes (1984). She felt that he already had someone else in mind for the role, since Andie MacDowell played Jane in the finished film. Maryam didn't connect with him until 15 years later at a dinner party. They became involved and married four years later in 2003.

[speaking in 1987] "There's nothing original in British cinema today. It's the bastardization of any other cinema you like to name. Instead of speaking English, it speaks American."