George Stevens was the greatest director I ever worked with. He made me understand that acting, especially film acting, is not emotion, but thinking. He showed me how the camera photographs your thoughts and sometimes your soul. Shelley Winters in her autobiography "Shelley: Also Known As Shirley" (1980)
Ernst Lubitsch could do more with a closed door than most of today's directors can do with an open fly. Billy Wilder in a 1975 interview