You Have To Think With The Heart.

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.

Yes, I Was Hired By Universal Because They Needed A Comedy Director. They Had Seen Scandal And Liked It. I Saw An Opportunity Even In Those Comedies To Begin My Project Of American Films.

Your Characters Have To Remain Innocent Of What Your Picture Is After.

I Considered That The Homes That People Live In Exactly Describe Their Lives.

I Was Making Films About American Society, And It Is True That I Never Felt At Home There, Except Perhaps When My Wife And I Lived On A Farm In The San Fernando Valley. But I Always Wanted My Characters To Be More Than Cyphers For The Failings Of Their World. And I Never Had To Look Too Hard To Find A Part Of Myself In Them