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 »
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 »
A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebo...dy looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, u...nless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended.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 »