Real talent is a mystery, and people who’ve got it, know it.
It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.
You can’t have any successes unless you can accept failure.
Don’t let a kick in the ass stop you. It’s how you cope that says what you are.
I suppose they call me a womans director because there were all these movie queens in the old days, and I directed most of them. But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.
You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.
Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.
Give me a good script, and I’ll be a hundred times better as a director.
But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.
Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don’t really mean anything.
You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can’t learn it all in school.
When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don’t let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.