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.

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.

Designing Woman was written for the screen.

I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.

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

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