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.

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

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

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

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

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.