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Hackers use their knowledge and their wits to maintain their autonomy. Some take the money and run. (We must live with our compromises.) Some refuse to compromise. (We live as best we can.) All too often those of us who take one of these paths resent those who take the other. One lot resents the pr…

In time I had to confront some facts. I am a mediocre director except when a play or a film touches a part of my life’s experience. Other times my cleverness and facility will not overcome my inadequacies. When I rely on mechanics, I do only what a good stage manager should be able to do. I am not …

WHEN I finished work on his play, I was full of admiration for Tennessee, especially because he’d found his story in his own life’s struggles; the man had used his personal contradictions and the memory of his pain to make it. When I considered him, I saw that the true artist must have the courage …

I am bitterly disappointed that you and Mrs. Selznick have still not come to an agreement. I am wondering what has been the primary trouble, the script itself or your unwillingness to tie up with another producer.… I am sure that you must have had reservations about the script. I will try to clarif…

Smart friends, however, made smart appraisals. One of them said that my stars looked as if they were dressed for a Beverly Hills costume party: “Come as Mr. and Mrs. Cattle Baron.” In New York, the New Republic critic wrote: “They wander through a lavish production like thoroughbred somnambulists.”…