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"In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies."

"It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out."

"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."

"Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation."

"I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer."

"And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press."

"I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow."
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"Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes."
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