You do that by letting them know that you love them. We then inquired about Dmytryk's approach to the script. Predictably, the old pro had much to say on the subject. Well, you never just shoot that script. First, you look at it and figure out how you can start it so that you have the viewer's interest right away.
Every good director is a script doctor.
I've never written an original script in my life because I'd rather have somebody else do that work. On The Young Lions, I could have gotten script credit for writing it simply because I changed so much. But we never asked for those things in those days. You know, very often I went back to the book. The most difficult thing in the world is to write a scene the way people really talk.