“Meryl Streep, who I noticed in a walk-on position in a stage play. She had possibly one line, and I knew she can be massive. I imagine this was earlier than she made any film. The one factor I might equate can be seeing Elizabeth Taylor [as] a baby in [a] small position in Orson Welles’s movie model of Jane Eyre in 1943. She was magnetic, [and] so was Meryl.”
—hrdbeinggreen