“But the great John Huston also helped enormously. He managed to consolidate my character for me in just one sentence. I’d been shooting for about two days and Huston said, ‘Cut! Michael,’ he said, ‘speak faster; he’s an honest man.’ Because I was speaking slowly, it seemed as though I was trying to figure out what effect I was making. Huston’s observation was spot on. Honest men speak fast because they don’t need time to calculate.”
Michael Caine, Acting in Film: An Actor’s Take on Movie Making (courtesy of Quinn Sutherland)