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. Mark Rydell Read Quote
It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite – polar opposites. Mark Rydell Read Quote
It’s kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world! Mark Rydell Read Quote
There’s evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry. Mark Rydell Read Quote
It’s the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he’s fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand. Mark Rydell Read Quote
He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn’t keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him. Mark Rydell Read Quote
It’s very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it’s oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance. Mark Rydell Read Quote