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.

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

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.

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

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

There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real. You just see reflections