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.

I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.

Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.

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.

Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.

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

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.