The lighting is so important. One thing that makes me nuts about the lighting now is that they spend an enormous amount of time lighting the set, the background. But the most important thing in the scene is the actor.

One of my favorite movies is The Little Foxes.

I have been asking for years for documentation from staff on why the current configuration is a good thing academically, ... There is nothing to prove that it is.

You really have to love the work. You can't look for stardom. That's a by-product.

I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.

Rita Hayworth in Gilda... there's not a shot of her in that movie that isn't gorgeous.