“It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being...” — Mark Rydell Quote

“It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!”

“Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.”

“I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.”

“The way 'The Icarus Girl' came about was by me just basically bragging it with a literary agent and telling him I'd written 150 pages when I'd only written 20. And I think it was when the agent e-mailed me back right the very next day after sending him the 20 pages and asking to see the other 130.”

“After that I got an agent and went on like a million auditions. You win some, you lose some.”

“I was shooting a German movie, 'Whatever Happens,' at the time, and I got the call from my agent asking me to self-tape for 'Blade Runner.' That was a no-brainer. I loved the original, and Rutger Hauer was a national hero, and he did such a good job in it.”