Mark RydellThe picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to make choices when you're trying to make something work. And the choices … ▶372ThoughtTruth
Mark RydellYes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.366Love
Mark RydellIt's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!325Humanity
Mark RydellIt perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it need… ▶348HumorThought
Mark RydellI long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.241Love
Mark RydellNow a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awf… ▶318Thought
Mark RydellThere's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.249Time
