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

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

It's the story that counts.

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

I learn new things all the time.

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

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

Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.

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

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.

It's always the story that interests me.

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

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

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

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

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

Designing Woman was written for the screen.

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

I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves.

I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.

I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

For a long time, it was hard for me to get my work done in Chicago. Silk Road gave me opportunities to do shows like 'Golden Child' - shows that nobody else seemed interested in. And they bring an artistic integrity to the work that matches anything you'll find at a bigger theatre.

I was the son of a publican and a master builder. He ran the Empire Hotel in North Hobart. His name was Max, too. Big Max.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

I'm basically an optimist because I do think there's this historical modernisation process, and by and large it's been very beneficial to people. But there are blips. History doesn't proceed in a linear way.

The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive.

I think when I look out and I see there's so much negativity in the world and a lot of people are unhappy and a lot people are anxious, it just feels like that's one view of the world. But you don't have to always focus on that view of the world.

I've always felt very confident in my ability.

I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit.

I don't know if I'm going to do any more acting. It's a great job, you know? Make a movie? Why not?

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