It's the story that counts.Collection: Movies
I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.
Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.
American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.
No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.
I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They’re things that the audience is not conscious of, but that accumulate.Collection: Conscious
Once you find the right idea, then go ahead and embellish it.Collection: Ideas
If you want to learn how to sing, listen to Ella Fitzgerald.Collection: Want
The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else.Collection: Father