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» It's the story that counts.

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

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

» 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 written anything else.

» Designing Woman was written for the screen.

» It's always the story that interests me.

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

» 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 man.

» But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

» In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.

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

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

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

» I learn new things all the time.

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

» I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.

» We shot that in all the real places where Van Gogh worked.

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

» Color can do anything that black-and-white can.

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

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

» I made three films with Douglas, two with Charles Boyer.

» Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience.

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

» I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

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

» I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

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

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

» That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.

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

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