37 Quotes by Mark Rydell

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

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 for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.

The picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to make choices when you're trying to make something work. And the choices we make I think are accurate. There aren't any lies in it. There are assumpt

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

Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.

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 out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful.

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

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

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 world!