Actor Quote by 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 understood it…

— 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 have inherited…

— 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 round table…

— 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 today. But…

— 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 my whole…

— 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, he's fragile,…

— Mark Rydell

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

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

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

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

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

— Mark Rydell