today there was an advancing army just outside Botany Bay, I wouldn't want to pick up a gun and fire away at it. I'd be keener to swim out and have a discussion about it. Lazenby said the film was "the story of what's happened to me. A lot of my friends are into yoga and I went to India to find out what it's all about" saying they taught him "There's another way if you don't like this one", and that the intuitive self should take over from the conditioned self. "You don't have to be anybody", he said, "If the President of the US invites you to dinner tomorrow night it shouldn't mean anything special because you are a god unto yourself." Lazenby added that "If anyone had told me about yogis six years ago I'd probably have chopped him in the mouth." Donald Factor said "This is a whole lot more than just another piece of empty pacifism, another tilt at the establishment. Universal Soldier attempts to present a view of the alternative. It’s a positive statement rather than a destructive one." Shooting Filming took place in London in November and December 1970. Some scenes were shot in Finch's, a pub in Portobello Road which had been popular with real mercenaries. The British Army refused to loan their barracks for a scene involving a peace demonstration. The scene in an arms factory was shot in a factory near London. Lazenby said the film was made with an improvisational style: We wrote it as we went along, watching just what each member of the cast could best do, and adapting accordingly. We tell the actors the idea of a scene, but let them speak it in their own words. There are no elocution experts around our outfit and no one talks in that foreign Hollywood language, which has nothing to do with how people speak in the street. This way the characters don't sound like actors. It will be a strange experience, seeing my film, but I hope it will be entertaining as well as having something to say. Perhaps there will be many young people who will say we haven't gone far enough out of the old technique. Well, if I could put on the screen what is in my head, I would never get it down at all. "We did it as we went along", Lazenby