My Ambition From The Very Beginning Was

I Think That The Best Movies Are Made, Not From A Point Of View That Depends On Your Personal History, Whether It's The Color Of Your Skin Or The Politics That You Had Or The Place That You Come From, But From A Point Of View Of An Understanding Of Human Nature, An Understanding Of History, And An Understanding Of What Motivates People.

Sometimes I Try To Improve The Language, The Lines, Or The Delivery, But I Don't Ad-lib Because I Think That Makes It Really Hard For Everybody Else Involved.

What I Think Is Important For A Young Person Is To Figure Out How To Be Useful And Not Be So Concentrated On Themselves, But To See What They Can Do To Make The Overall Collaboration With All The Other People Involved In A Movie Work Better.

I've Never Been Bothered By Proximity To Special Effects And I've Never Felt Disadvantaged By Them. They're All Part Of A Movie, And When The Movie's Under Control I Don't Feel Upstaged By Them.

[jimmy] Breslin's [write] Really Great Book On Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey Himself Wrote Quite A Lot. There's Some Film And Kinescope From Television.