Evening Primrose was shot in just a couple of days, and we had only one Sunday in Stern’s department store. I spent most of the time looking over the cameraman’s shoulder. When Tony Perkins asked where he should look while he sang, I told him not to look directly into the lens, but just to the left and right of it. It was terrible advice and as a consequence, he looks cross-eyed. That was the last time I tried to direct anything.
— The Sondheim Review Vol. 7, No. 1





