It Never Occurred To Me To Be

When I Have Failed As An Actor I've Always Thought It Was My Fault. But When I Direct Something, I Wouldn't Want The Actors To Think It Was Their Fault.

In New York In The Forties Or Fifties, Everybody's In A Suit, An Overcoat And A Hat.

I Like To Direct Movies, But I Don't Like To Goof Around For Eight Years Talking About It.

It's Not A Field, I Think, For People Who Need To Have Success Every Day: If You Can't Live With A Nightly Sort Of Disaster, You Should Get Out. I Wouldn't Describe Myself As Lacking In Confidence, But I Would Just Say That The Ghosts You Chase You Never Catch.

All You Have Is The Writer's Imagination. You Have A Very Limited Time To Take This Imaginary Person And Bring The Details Of Their Life, As You Perceive Them, To Life. You Attempt To Do To That As Fully And As Vibrantly As You Can. It's Depressing To Read How Much You've Failed. And It's Not Even Particularly Instructive Or Necessary To Read How You Succeeded Because In The End Don't You Have To Judge That?