Director

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

We shot that in all the real places where Van Gogh worked.

I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.

No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.

American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.

West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.

I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.