James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.

When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.

I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.

The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.

Lise: Paris has ways of making people forget. Jerry: Paris? No, not this city. It's too real and too beautiful. It never lets you forget anything. It reaches in and opens you wide, and you stay that way.

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.

You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.