If I Couldn't Read, I Couldn't Live.

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.

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.

Rock Hudson Was Not An Educated Man, But That Very Beautiful Body Of His Was Putty In My Hands.

So Slowly In My Mind Formed The Idea Of Melodrama, A Form I Found To Perfection In American Pictures. They Were Naive, They Were That Something Completely Different. They Were Completely Art-less.

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