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Designing Woman was written for the screen.
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Woman
I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.
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Character
Colors
I learn new things all the time.
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Time
I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.
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Entertainment
Theater
I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream.
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Coffee
I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.
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People
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.
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Man
Writer
Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.
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Life
Surrealism
Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.
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Art
But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.
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Present
Surrealism
American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
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American
Popular
Stars
World
I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.
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Theater
I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.
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Work
Actors
The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.
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Father
Surrealism
That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.
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Nothing
Will