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

I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.

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.

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

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.

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

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.