If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.

Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

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

This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.