I Don't Feel Qualified To

I`ve Had Few Dull Moments [in My Life] And Not Too Many Sad And Defeated Ones. In Saying This I Am By No Means Overlooking The Rough And Rocky Years I`ve Lived Through. But I Was Not Brought Up Thinking Life Would Be Easy. I Always Expected To Work Hard For My Money And To Get Nothing I Did Not Earn. And The Bad Years, It Seems To Me, Were So Few That Only A Dyed-in-the-wool Grouch Who Enjoys Feeling Sorry For Himself Would Complain.

I Was Mad At The Time, Or I Would Never Have Done The Thing.

The First Thing I Did In The Studio Was To Want To Tear That Camera To Pieces. I Had To Know How That Film Got Into The Cutting Room, What You Did To It In There, How You Projected It, How You Finally Got The Picture Together, How You Made Things Match. The Technical Part Of Pictures Is What Interested Me. Material Was The Last Thing In The World I Thought About. You Only Had To Turn Me Loose On The Set And I`d Have Material In Two Minutes, Because I`d Been Doing It All My Life.

Is Hollywood The Cruelest City In The World? Well, It Can Be. New York Can Be That, Too. You Can Be A Broadway Star Here One Night, And Something Happens, And Out--nobody Knows You On The Street. They Forget You Ever Lived. It Happens In Hollywood, Too.

All My Life I Have Been Happiest When The Folks Watching Me Said To Each Other, `look At The Poor Dope, Wilya?