37 Quotes by Mark Rydell

So he was really a tortured fellow, ... He felt very lonely during that period. But he felt that it helped him. And it did.

He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him.

He said he wanted me to play a part, and he's done that a couple of times before but I haven't been available because I was making my own pictures.

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 for weeks, examining the values of the material, so his technique is very different.

He was talking to me about bull-fighting, which was one of his passions,

It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites.

I remember thinking at that moment that he was not long for this world. Anybody who could do that had such a reckless personality that sooner or later it was going to catch up with him,

There are a lot of memories that are very... nutritious. I've had a very fortunate career. I've worked with practically every icon you can think of.

You don't improvise. Well, you might improvise in a moment, trying to find something but for the most part everything is written by Woody, every word.