George Axelrod

[on directing for the first time]: I was in heaven! If I've been a good boy, when I die, they'll give me a big soundstage up there, with all the gunk to play with. Show less «

[on Richard Quine]: He was sweet and highly talented, but totally insane, which made him exactly my kind of person. Show less «

[on the screenplay for "The Manchurian Candidate"]: It breaks every single known rule. It's got dream sequences, flashbacks, narration out of nowhere. When we got in trouble, it just had a voice explaining stuff. Everything in the world that you're told not to do. But that was part of its genetic code, the secret of the crossword puzzle. Show less «