[1970 comment on Jean Renoir] He`s my style. Renoir`s good for actors. Renoir obviously loves actors and understands actors, and "La Grande Illusion," which I saw recently, is so modern that it could have been made this year -- the acting and the staging ...
[on Rudolf Valentino] That Valentino was certainly a very splendid fellow. And his unique glamor was not entirely due to the fact that he was unhampered by banal dialogue. Modern dialogue is not always banal, and the screen hero who could match Valentino`...
[on Walter Wanger] Walter Wanger was a man who always wanted to be European. He didn`t know how to be European but he wanted to be European so "The Reckless Moment" was rather the kind of film -- I suppose, like "Brief Encounter" -- that he was trying to ...