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.

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

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

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

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.