I could tell you a King Vidor picture, a Capra picture. I can always tell you a Hitchcock picture. If you have any kind of style, the discerning ones will detect it. You’re trying to make as good and as entertaining a picture as you possibly can. You may ask me, ‘Do you remember that in a picture you wrote in 1935, the motive of the good guy was charity, and then the echo in that sentiment reappears in four more pictures. When you see movies, you decide to put some kind of connective theory to them. That’s the way I look at it, that’s the way I conceive it. We’re not aware that ‘This picture will be in this genre.’ It comes naturally, just the way you do your handwriting. As a picture-maker, and I think most of us are this way, I am not aware of patterns. Or like Minnelli, doing the great Metro musicals. As he once said, “I don’t make only one kind of movie, like say Hitchcock.
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