Your Camera Is The Best Critic There

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

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

Your Characters Have To Remain Innocent Of What Your Picture Is After.

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.

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