Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than on…there was something touching and appealing about her.

Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.

Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.

You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.

Whenever something is convenient or was modified after 1970, you probably shouldn't use it as root.