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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

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When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

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Up until the middle to late '60s, it was a choice to film in black-and-white or color. But then television became so vital to a film's finance, and television won't show black-and-white. So that killed it off, really.

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Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious.

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You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor.

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All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

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I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with.

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