“I get along very well with actors. They’re like children. They need to be ­encouraged and reprimanded enough to know that you’re interested. You’d think that great actors, like George C. Scott or Laurence Olivier, would ­resent direction, but they all depend on it. They’ve got to have the attention—it’s like dope—but at the same time the attention has to be convincing, it has to be something that they can acknowledge as real attention, and they get pretty discriminating, because they get lots of broadside, blind ­attention. That’s the thing. If you give them that, you can enchant them into anything.”

– Terry Southern in the Paris Review