I Like Audiences To Crane Their Necks.

I Insist That They Do What They Became Actors To Do. I Want Them To Create Something And Not Just Hit Marks And Say Words. So They All Love That Because They're Playing. It's Called Playacting. Their Contributions Are Not Only Welcomed, But Are Accepted And Used.

All Of My Films Deal With The Same Thing: Striving, Socially And Culturally, To Stay Alive.

If Something Works For You, You Continue To Do It. I Did A Bunch Of Pictures For 20th Century Fox When Alan Ladd Was Over There, But I Set The Budgets So Low That They'd Approve And I'd Deliver The Film. They Would Have No Say In It, Which Is The Kind Of Arrangement I Liked.

Most Of My Films I Call Arena Films. I Deal With A Confined Area -- An Arena -- And I Try To Cover Every Aspect Of It.

If George W. Bush Is Elected President, I'm Leaving For France.