American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.
Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.
But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.
I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.
The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.
