Director

Designing Woman was written for the screen.

I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.

But I went down to Venezuela and spend a few weeks going through jungles. It's fantastic looking.

It's the story that counts.

I made three films with Douglas, two with Charles Boyer.

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.

It's always the story that interests me.

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.

Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience.

I learn new things all the time.

Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.

I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.

Color can do anything that black-and-white can.

I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.

If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream.

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.