“George [Harrison] filmed a lot; he liked to film everything and he actually photographed a lot too. He once said he was going to make a documentary about himself. He said it was going to be the first documentary about a person who is not in it, because he was always behind the camera. But somehow Marty managed to find film where George had set the camera up and put himself on the screen, in the shot. It’s a very large archive, there are songs, lyrics, letters, film and music, and all aspects of George’s life, so it was a lot of research.” - Olivia Harrison, FICM (2016)
“George had wanted to do his own anthology, from the time the Beatles had their anthology in 1995. When four people do a story, it’s ‘Rashomon’. He had a series of cameras from the time I met him. Movie cameras, 8-mil cameras. DVs, Hi-8s, Super VHS, U-matics. He said once, ‘I’m stockpiling all this material for when I’m dead,’ but this was 20 years ago. He just wanted to share what he loved with people and his friends.” - Olivia Harrison, ArtsBeat New York Times (2011)
“Someday, I’d like to make a real silly comedy movie full of silly music. I don’t really fancy my chances of being a scriptwriter or an actor, but I do have a lot of silly ideas in the back of my head. If we can make enough money so that it doesn’t matter if I blow a couple million on my own ideas, I’d like to follow some of them up. Maybe as my last fling, I’ll have this huge but very cheap flop with all my mates in it.” - George Harrison, Film Comment (1988)
“I’d like to see a film that actually made you come out of the theater feeling very joyous and happy, and I don’t know exactly what that film is, but I may end up making my own 8-mil which I’ll show ya. [laughs]” - George Harrison, Newsnight (1985)
