The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.

After the war, photography came alive, in part because everybody started to use the 35mm camera, and worked on the street instead of in a studio, and that made an enormous difference in not only how photographs looked, but what they were about.

Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.

My education was an education by movies.

I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.

Beauty doesn't have anything to do with prettiness. Beauty has to do with something else; it gets into an area where words can't go.

It's interesting that there are places that words can't get to.