Sam Wood(1883-1949)

Before becoming a director, Wood had worked on pipelines for an oil company.

[on working with Gary Cooper in The Pride of the Yankees (1942)] You're positive he's going to ruin your picture. I froze in my tracks the first time I directed him. I thought something was wrong with him, saw a million-dollar production go glimmering. I was amazed at the result on the screen. What I thought was underplaying turned out to be just the right approach. On the screen he's perfect, yet on the set you'd swear it's the worst job of acting in the history of motion pictures.