It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance. — Mark Rydell Copy Share Image
There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized. — Mark Rydell Copy Share Image
Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors. — Mark Rydell Copy Share Image
It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it… — Mark Rydell Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited… — Mark Rydell Copy Share Image
Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a round table… — Mark Rydell Copy Share Image
It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But… — Mark Rydell Copy Share Image
It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole… — Mark Rydell Copy Share Image
It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile,… — Mark Rydell Copy Share Image
The picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to make choices… — Mark Rydell Copy Share Image
Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or… — Mark Rydell Copy Share Image
No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius,… — Mark Rydell Copy Share Image
It 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… — Mark Rydell Copy Share Image
