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.

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.