I Meant Exactly What I Said: That

The Way I Relax, What I Like Doing Most, Is Watching. That's Why I Like Traveling, To Have New Things Before My Eyes - Even A New Face. I Enjoy Myself Like That And Can Stay For Hours, Looking At Things, People, Scenery.

The Script Is A Starting Point, Not A Fixed Highway. I Must Look Through The Camera To See If What I've Written On The Page Is Right Or Not. In The Script, You Describe Imagined Scenes, But It's All Suspended In Mid-air. Often, An Actor Viewed Against A Wall Or A Landscape, Or Seen Through A Window, Is Much More Eloquent Than The Lines You've Given Him. So Then You Take Out The Lines. This Happens Often To Me And I End Up Saying What I Want With A Movement Or A Gesture.

When You Work On A Character, You Form In Your Mind An Image Of What He Ought To Look Like. Then You Go And Find One Who Resembles Him.

I Simply Know What The Actor's Attitude Should Be And What He Should Say. He Doesn't, Because He Can't See The Relationship That Begins To Exist Between His Body And The Other Things In The Scene.

I Want An Actor To Try To Give Me What I Ask In The Best And Most Exact Way Possible. He Mustn't Try To Find Out More, Because Then There's The Danger That He'll Become His Own Director.