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

I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.

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

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.

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

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

My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.