FILMOGRAPHY

I won’t make a speech, but I’ll be glad to answer any questions. If I make a speech I’ll be fifty percent wrong, and if I answer your questions I’ll only be a little wrong…

In the first place, improvisation is a silly word because when you have a scene to do, you don’t really know anything about it until you see the people that are going to act in the picture. I’m more interested in fitting the story around the actors. A script is an important basis, but it doesn’t have to be followed exactly…A good example was a week before starting a new picture with John Wayne. I was down in Mexico on location and found a Mexican boy who I thought was awfully good. I made a test for him for a small part and gave him the lead opposite Wayne…

Actors per se I don’t give too much a hoot about, but personalities I do. I can take a personality and make something out of him, though I’ve worked with a lot of personalities who were both personalities and good actors, like Gary Cooper.