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

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

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

At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

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.

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.

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.