Mark Rydell Quotes

I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.

It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It’s funny, it’s charming, the idea is original, it’s unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at.

Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.

Well you’re talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.

Well you know, Woody doesn’t rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a round table for weeks, examining the values of the material, so his technique is very different.

There’s evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.