Award-winning set designer and special-effects master. During his career--spanning more than 60 years--he worked on more than 450 films, with such directors as Orson Welles, Stanley Kubrick and George Cukor.
When a director asks me for one thing I give him two, not out of generosity but because in this way I impose on myself a challenge that I have to resolve, and this stimulates me. - 1996 memoirs
Everything I have done and continue to do is aimed exclusively at learning. - 1996 memoirs