I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

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.

If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.

For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.

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.

You have to think with the heart.

Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace.

WHERE YOUR DREAMS WANDER, THERE U MAKE SEVERAL BLUNDER, EVEN IT HURT MISTAKES THUNDER, IT WILL CARVE U STRONGER, ONE DAY THE WORLD WONDER.

Giving an opportunity to others is not political act

Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble and you'll probably make it through the next one.

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

Democracy cannot be forced upon a society, neither is it a gift that can be held forever. It has to be struggled hard for and defended everyday anew.

My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be Vice President!

I always feel sorry for people who think more about a rainy day ahead than sunshine today.

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

Without harmony in the State, no military expedition can be undertaken; without harmony in the army, no battle array can be formed.