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.

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

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

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.

You have to think with the heart.

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