I Like Audiences To Crane

If Something Works For You, You Continue To Do It. I Did A Bunch Of Pictures For 20th Century Fox When Alan Ladd Was Over There, But I Set The Budgets So Low That They'd Approve And I'd Deliver The Film. They Would Have No Say In It, Which Is The Kind Of Arrangement I Liked.

I Insist That They Do What They Became Actors To Do. I Want Them To Create Something And Not Just Hit Marks And Say Words. So They All Love That Because They're Playing. It's Called Playacting. Their Contributions Are Not Only Welcomed, But Are Accepted And Used.

Maybe There's A Chance To Get Back To Grown-up Films. Anything That Uses Humor And Dramatic Values To Deal With Human Emotions And Gets Down To What People Are To People.

I Don't Think Screenplay Writing Is The Same As Writing - I Mean, I Think It's Blueprinting.

[the Player Is] Not A Truthful Indictment Of Hollywood. It's Much Uglier Than I Portrayed It, But Nobody Would've Been Interested If I'd Shown Just How Sadistic, Cruel And Self-orientated It Is.