If I Couldn't Read, I Couldn't Live.

And In Movies You Must Be A Gambler. To Produce Films Is To Gamble.

I Think The Great Artists (..) Have Always Thought With The Heart.

These Happy Endings All Express The Weak And Sly Promise That The World Is Not Rotten And Out Of Joint But Meaningful And Ultimately In Excellent Condition.

My Idea At This Time, Which Was Slowly Developing, Was To Create A Comedie Humaine With Little People, Average People - Samples From Every Period In American Life.

For A House, Somewhere Near Los Angeles I Found An Old Church. Very Old, No Longer Used. So We Moved The Church To The Land, And I Took Off The Steeple, And I Got My Hands Dirty.