摘要：This question and answer, printed in an interview with Vin-cente Minnelli from the first Movie, have excited more comment than anything else in the magazine. Derek Hill in The Financial Timesfound them so absurd that he used them to dismiss the whole of Movieas an expensive joke. I suspect that there were a number of causes behind Mr. Hill's mirth: the idea of asking such questions on minute detail to a director would have seemed pointless to him, particularly when the answer was so simple that he probably took it at once to explode the grandiose theories which the foolish young critics were doubtless hatching about the director's intentions and to stamp him as ambitionless or simple
