I insist that they do what they became actors to do. I want them to create something and not just hit marks and say words. So they all love that beca….

Most of my films I call arena films. I deal with a confined area -- an arena -- and I try to cover every aspect of it..

We make too much of the good and too much of the bad..

The Oscar for the films, it'd be nice. But I don't make those kind of films, and I don't think that will ever happen..

I want to see something that I've never seen before, so how can I tell that actor what that is? I'm not trying to construct a document or situation t….

If something works for you, you continue to do it. I did a bunch of pictures for 20th Century Fox when Alan Ladd was over there, but I set the budget….