Douglas Sirk

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

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

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.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.