I prefer the days when ... I mean, it was a long time before I knew what John Ford looked like. He looked like an old bum, which I loved. That's pretty much how I look like on the set. (Laughs.) Scruffy and dirty and smoking a chewed-up cigar, which I don't do anymore. But in those days, you didn't have any idea. The only person you knew, you could recognize, is [Alfred] Hitchcock because he did that TV thing. But you didn't know who Bill Wellman was, you didn't know what Howard Hawks was, you didn't know, you didn't know what these guys looked like. They were just names. And I liked that. I mean, I would have preferred to come along much earlier in the history of movies and have been making movies in the days when directors were under contract to studios. And you made three films a year instead of one film every three years or every 13 years. I mean, people crack me up when they say, "Oh," they finish a movie, "oh, I've got to take a three-month vacation." I mean, you're never more ready to shoot a movie than when you just finish a movie. Everything is cooking, you know, you're sharp. I mean, when you think of the fact that Victor Fleming ... Victor Fleming made Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz in the same year. Now today, between them it would take 30 years. It's ridiculous. And nobody even knows who Victor Fleming looks like. I don't even know what he looks like, I've never seen a picture of him.
