On using cockeyed camera angles: CAROL REED: I used it so much in The Third Man, however, that I remember William Wyler, after seeing the film, made me the gift of a spirit level. “Carol,” he said, “next time you make a picture, just put it on top of the camera, will you!” On show business: JOHN FORD: For a director there are commercial rules that it is necessary to obey. In our profession, an artistic failure is nothing; a […]

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