You Have To Think With The Heart.

You Have To Think With The Heart.

I Never Regarded My Pictures As Very Much To Be Proud Of, Except In This, The Craft, The Style.

There Arose A Belief In Style - And In Banality. Banality Encompassed Politics, Too, Because It Was A Common Belief That Politics Were Not Worthy Of Art.

And In Movies You Must Be A Gambler. To Produce Films Is To Gamble.

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