00:06Yes, I did have a great ambition to direct at all times.
00:11I wanted to be a director.
00:12That's what I wanted to be.
00:13It's only the director who knows, who can tell the actor exactly where he is in time
00:16and space in his performance and his relationship with other actors.
00:20Nobody, nobody else can do it.
00:22Not the writer, not the executive, nobody else.
00:24So it's a director's medium.
00:27Entertainment comes first.
00:29Without it, it's very heavy.
00:31And without it, you can't sell the American people anything.
00:34There's no place out there for graft or greed or lies or compromise with human liberties.
00:42And if that's what the grown-ups have done with this world that was given to them,
00:46then we better get those boys' camps started fast and see what the kids can do.
00:49You never can out-guess this thing called creativity.
00:52It happens in the strangest of places.
00:54Then I use comedy to warm the people to my subject.
00:59You mean you're going to bury Mr. Hotchkiss in the cellar?
01:02Oh, yes, dear.
01:03That's what we did with the others.
01:05Look here, Aunt Martha, you can't be...
01:08Others?
01:09The other gentlemen.
01:11Oh.
01:13When you say others, do you mean others?
01:16More than one others?
01:18If I can get them laughing, they've let their defenses down.
01:21And then you can probably tell them some kind of a moral tale.
01:25The dignity and the importance of the individual, I try to hang on to that.
01:30And that I try to hang on all the way throughout my films.
01:42I try to hang on all the way throughout my films.
