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

Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.

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

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.

At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

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