Nicholas Ray

The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.

As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.

If it were all in the script, why make the film?

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.