Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.

A job is a job to me and when I get a story I become involved in it immediately.

American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.

But I don't compare myself to anybody.

But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.

But I went down to Venezuela and spend a few weeks going through jungles. It's fantastic looking.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

Colette (1873-1954) had written about actual people in Gigi. She considered it one of her minor things, not to be compared to Vagabond or Cheri. It's had a life of its own.

But the idea of a man being killed during an episode of love and coming back as a woman started to impress me more and more and more.