I Worked For Ufa As A Set

Your Camera Is The Best Critic There Is. Critics Never See As Much As The Camera Does. It Is More Perceptive Than The Human Eye.

Rock Hudson Was Not An Educated Man, But That Very Beautiful Body Of His Was Putty In My Hands.

There Arose A Belief In Style - And In Banality. Banality Encompassed Politics, Too, Because It Was A Common Belief That Politics Were Not Worthy Of Art.

There Is A Wonderful Expression: Seeing Through A Glass Darkly. Everything, Even Life, Is Inevitably Removed From You. You Can't Reach, Or Touch, The Real. You Just See Reflections

I Was Making Films About American Society, And It Is True That I Never Felt At Home There, Except Perhaps When My Wife And I Lived On A Farm In The San Fernando Valley. But I Always Wanted My Characters To Be More Than Cyphers For The Failings Of Their World. And I Never Had To Look Too Hard To Find A Part Of Myself In Them