Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.