 Alec Guinness (qv) insisted on watching his scenes in the unedited  rough cuts and would get depressed, thinking his performance was  poor. Screenwriter John le Carré (qv) told director  Simon Langton (qv) not to worry about it because Guinness had done  the same thing while filming  _"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" (1979) (mini)_ (qv), and his  performance then "turned out fine," Langton said.