I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.
I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.
One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.
The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.
If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.
I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.
The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.
My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job.
Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates.
Well, of course the general idea was dreamed up by the advertising agency and so my job was to realize that. And we down to Lubbock, Texas, usually and onto a ranch and we would pick cowboys who looked the part and photograph them under dramatic situations - rounding up wild horses or running through streams and then reaching in and taking a drag on a cigarette.
There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.