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.

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.

It's the story that counts.

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

The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.

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

I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream.