I hope you won`t be disappointed. You see I am not a very interesting person. I haven`t ever done anything except be other people. I ain`t really Henry Fonda! Nobody could be. Nobody could have that much integrity.
When I first agreed to do it the screenplay by Irwin Shaw was fine, but what happened? King Vidor used to go home nights with his wife and rewrite it. All the genius of Tolstoy went out the window. - On War and Peace (1956)