For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.

And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self.

I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.

I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.