American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
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But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.
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But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.
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Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.
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Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.
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Designing Woman was written for the screen.
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I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.
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I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.
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I learn new things all the time.
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I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.
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I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.
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I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.
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It's always the story that interests me.
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It's the story that counts.
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No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.
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The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else.
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West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.
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