Quotes

God was a great photographer. He'd only gotten one light.

Lee Garmes will never see the day that he's as good as I am, and that goes for anybody in the motion picture business.

[recalling the screen test he shot for Marilyn Monroe in 1946] I thought, "This girl will be another Harlow [Jean Harlow]". Her natural beauty plus her inferiority complex gave her a look of mystery. I got a cold chill. This girl had something I hadn't seen since silent pictures.

[on Forever Amber (1947)] There was something strange about that picture. Linda Darnell was burned in the Great Fire of London, and in Anna and the King of Siam (1946) she was burned to death as a punishment . . . and then, it's extraordinary, she actually died in a fire [in her home in 1965]. . . And she only just escaped death in the picture, because, during the Great Fire, a roof caved in, I pulled the camera back and she only just got out with it in time. She was terrified of fire, almost as though she had a premonition.