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

If you want to learn how to sing, listen to Ella Fitzgerald..

Designing Woman was written for the screen..

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

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

Once you find the right idea, then go ahead and embellish it..

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

It's always the story that interests me..

The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never….

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

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

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 ma….

I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They’re things that the audience is not conscious of, but th….

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

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

Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department..

It's the story that counts..

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

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 learn new things all the time..