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

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

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.

A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

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.

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

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.