[diary entry during the filming of Orson Welles's "The Lady From Shanghai"]: Orson took me aside and told me he had finished filming in Acapulco and wanted to get the cast and crew back to Hollywood, where he would resume shooting. I was delighted - until he informed me I was to remain and shoot additional footage. "Close shots of insects, snakes, iguanas, any reptiles you can find in the jungles." I am now a reptile director, teaching snakes and iguanas to act.
