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.

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

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.

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

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

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.