My philosophy is that to be a director you cannot be subject to anyone, even the head of the studio. I threatened to quit each tim...e I didn't get my way, but no one ever let me walk out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who bear their... full share in the world's work, not to care who make the laws, who expound and who administer them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And in a disused shed in Co. Wexford, Deep in the grounds of a burnt-out hotel,... Among the bathtubs and the washbasins A thousand mushrooms crowd to a keyhole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience there is no theater. Every technique learned by the ac...tor, every curtain, every flat on the stage, every careful analysis by the director, every coordinated scene, is for the enjoyment of the audience. They are our guests, our evaluators, and the last spoke in the wheel which can then begin to roll. They make the performance meaningful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, I know you haven't had much experience writing and none at all in pictures. But I've heard about you. It all sounded like yo...u're just the man I wanted for a story about the Navy. I don't want a story just about ships and planes. I want a story about the officers.... I want this story from a pen dipped in salt water not dry martinis. Do you know what I mean?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. S...piritualism, free love, free divorce, the vicious indulgences consequent on unregulated civilization, the worldliness which tempts men and women to avoid large families, often by sinful methods, thus making the ignorant masses the chief supply of the future ruling majorities; and most powerful of all, the feeble constitution and poor health of women, causing them to dread maternity as--what it is fast becoming--an accumulation of mental and bodily tortures.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or a...m.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men an...d women. Women will not become less gentle and graceful, but men will become more so. Women will not neglect the care and education of their children, but men will find themselves ennobled and refined by sharing those duties with them; and will receive, in return, co-operation and sympathy in the discharge of various other duties, now deemed inappropriate to women. The more women become rational companions, partners in business and in thought, as well as in affection and amusement, the more highly will men appreciate home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization... and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »