00:03and like Hollywood the moment I got here I felt lucky here there was a vitality that you could
00:10feel it was very advantageous for me to come out I was curious although I've been a rather
00:18successful stage director I knew nothing about the camera the coin of the realm was talent
00:25and they respected it I was trained in the theater and there is a trick of adapting a play to
00:33the
00:34screen if you photographed the stage play you give it the movement to make it conversational
00:40and palatable to the screen because the screen is realistic I think the audience feels if a thing
00:47is real by and large you give the tone of the whole thing the bigger the flare and it is
00:56the director
00:56who kind of fuses that together I don't think it's all that easy I think there's certain directors
01:04who accomplish things visually and with the camera and I accomplish things through the actor through
01:11the acting gift they're a great believer in the immediate moment and I find that absolutely
01:18fascinating you have to be on firm ground with the subject but you've got to know why do I want
01:29to do
01:29Dickens why do I want to do Little Women what is the essence of that and I try to capture
01:35that
01:36it opens up a whole world I've never been so embarrassed in my life when will you stop your
01:41childish romping ways not until I'm old and stiff and have to use a crutch suddenly the audience saw
01:49well this is somebody to be reckoned with and it was at that moment that Catherine Hepburn became a star
01:58you're a better director with good material you rely on it you can lean on it the power of thought
02:06in pictures is very important that it broadens one's view in some of the pictures there were real
02:13problems the breakup of a marriage and the loss of a child some actors have the talent of being absolutely
02:33terrifying I was in a sense brought up with John Bam and I found him as with all first great
02:40actors he
02:41was very open and very you could meet him on a common ground he was not inflexible got to create
02:49a
02:49a mutual trust if you had an idea at all they would encourage you to give it to them they
02:56had
02:56aspirations and one mustn't despise aspirations it shows that they have hopes of doing the thing the
03:02proper thing it's easy to catalog people one is always being put in some category or other we all have
03:09our
03:10limitations I don't like it when people put artificial limitations on you I just find it repulsive
03:19fundamentally you are the same person nothing you you either deteriorate or you educate yourself why
03:27shouldn't I be able to do a serious dramatic thing doesn't take any way for me it shows that I'm
03:36smart and
03:37I'm clever enough to to get people who really do their job well I'm not the Renaissance man I'm the
03:42hero of this story I don't think it's a failing of me I don't think it's anything wrong of me
03:47that I'm
03:48not the greatest writer or musician or anything I think there's a limitation that people rather
03:52foolishly put on themselves
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