(1942) and directed a new scene in that film. That gave me the urge to direct. |
Citizen Kane was a marvelous film to work on--well planned and well-shot, |
[Although Welles was later prone to insinuating that he had edited] Kane ... basically left the original assembly up to me. |
[Then came Welles' 1941 masterpiece,] Citizen Kane, ... a high point in a lucky life. |
A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them. |
He was a little of both. I didn't know much in those days, because it was only my third film. I was learning on my feet and he taught me a great deal. He was very open to actors' suggestions and he used whatever spontaneous thoughts or suggestions we might have, if they suited his purpose. He was a firm, but gentle leader. |
His mood in the morning depended on what went on at home, but I never met an actor quite like him, ... He knew exactly what worked for him on screen and knew what he could get away with. |
I don't know that I had any particular "influence," but when I came into the business my idols were people like John Ford and Willy Wyler and Howard Hawkes, later on Joseph Mankiewicz and others like that. But I don't know that I picked up, necessarily, anything. Of course Orson was a big influence. |
I had to come out here and go to work and I came off all right, |
I remember the house we lived in, the grade school, the junior high and high school. I remember one time we had a fire in the high school so we couldn't go there. We had to go to the junior high school for a year. |
I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important. |
I'd rather do my own thing, which has been to choose projects that take me into all different kinds of genres. I don't have a favorite kind of film to make. I just look for the best material I can find. |
I've always been proud of being a Hoosier, ... When I talk to people, I tell them that. |
I've often wondered if maybe I tried to tell too many stories in The Sand Pebbles. |
It blows my mind every time I think about the fact that he's out there with us. He's always telling us about how tough his practices were at Ohio State, and it kind of gives us something to live up to. There are no practices when we don't finish breathing hard. |