Mark Rydell

Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.

— Mark Rydell

It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never…

— Mark Rydell

It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who…

— Mark Rydell

Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a…

— Mark Rydell

It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are…

— Mark Rydell

It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is…

— Mark Rydell

It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability,…

— Mark Rydell

The picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to…

— Mark Rydell

Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are…

— Mark Rydell

No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a…

— Mark Rydell

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…

— Mark Rydell

I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack.

— Mark Rydell

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

— Mark Rydell

There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's…

— Mark Rydell

Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and…

— Mark Rydell

I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.

— Mark Rydell

He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's…

— Mark Rydell

He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't…

— Mark Rydell