Your Characters Have To Remain Innocent Of

At The Time I Belonged To The Socialist Party, And Hitler Came To Power.

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

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.

I Think The Great Artists (..) Have Always Thought With The Heart.

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