All Quotes

The good ones push their luck to the limit - like Laurence Oliver. As actor and director, he will go just as far as he can. ”

To me it's more fun and more challenging, too, to do different types of pictures. ”

There is nothing clever about confusion. ”

A director must push his actors to the utmost limit to get everything possible out of each scene - without being corny or sentimental or going overboard. ”

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine. ”

I'm delighted that 'The Sound of Music' is doing so well. Of course, it's an infallible piece of material. Even when second- and third-rate road companies were doing the play, they did enormous business. ”

It looked like 'The Sound of Music' would even surpass 'Ben Hur,' and I thought it would be unfair for me to have done both. I thought I'd leave something for somebody else. That's a quip. ”

The war was an escape to reality... The only thing that mattered were human relationships; not money, not position, not even family... Only relationships with people who might be dead tomorrow were important. It is a sort of wonderful state of mind. It's too bad it takes a war to create such a condition among men. ”

If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is. ”

The trouble with Hollywood is that too many of the top people responsible for pictures are too comfortable and don't give a damn about what goes up on the screen so long as it gets by at the box office. How can you expect people with that kind of attitude to make the kind of great pictures that the world will want to see? ”