[on working with Alfred Hitchcock] On each picture I recognized again, as if for the first time, that I was working with a master. He is one of the few who really knows the materials of his craft and their effect--and he will use anything--in any combination, in any form, conventional or not--to make his statement, to tell his story.

[on Alfred Hitchcock] No director I've worked with knew as much about films as he did. A lot of directors I worked with knew a great deal, but they didn't have that technical skill.

I'm all for construction [of a film's setting], because we're dealing with the magic of movies. And I always feel that if you build it, you build it for the dream rather than the actuality. We make up our own truth.

[his definition of the job of an art director or production designer] Being responsible for the space in which a film takes place.