You have to think with the heart.

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.

This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.

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.

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

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.

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