If you want to learn how to sing, listen to Ella Fitzgerald.

No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

Color can do anything that black-and-white can.

It's always the story that interests me.

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.

But I went down to Venezuela and spend a few weeks going through jungles. It's fantastic looking.