I use colors to bring fine points of story and character..

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work..

But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects..

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures..

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

I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen..

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

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

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….

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

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

I learn new things all the time..

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

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….

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

No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there..

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

It's always the story that interests me..

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….

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

It's the story that counts..