If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

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.

American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.

I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They’re things that the audience is not conscious of, but that accumulate.

The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else.

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