With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

I'm an incurable romantic, and Casablanca's one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.

One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.

If you look at the types of directors out there, I'm not as weird as most of them.