Quotes

I stopped because I wanted to live. That was no life, to work at the studio, get up at six every morning and fight the producers. I had enough. I looked at my bank book and I said, 'That's it!'

It's not what you light - it's what you DON'T light.

There is no doubt in my mind that the most beautiful music is sad, and the most beautiful photography is in a low-key, with rich blacks.

[in a 1994 interview] A few foreign and American films are outstanding, and since the public accepts the average films, it must be that they're right and I'm wrong. But it seems that producers once wanted more from the people who made pictures, and they became works of art.