No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without questi…

- Mark Rydell

I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.

- Mark Rydell

It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie …

- Mark Rydell

Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privileg…

- Mark Rydell

Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is,…

- Mark Rydell

Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.

- Mark Rydell

I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack.

- Mark Rydell

It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!

- Mark Rydell

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

- Mark Rydell