If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.

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

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.

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

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

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.