It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

I suppose they call me a womans director because there were all these movie queens in the old days, and I directed most of them. But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

Real talent is a mystery, and people who've got it, know it.

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.