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.

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.

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

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.

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