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.

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

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

You have to think with the heart.

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

I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart.