"It was all that neorealism; it just caught me at the right time. I can't even remember, but I know there were a few films at that time, neorealist films, that they were doing in Europe that we were not doing here. It just felt so real to me and so good. I didn't jump and say, Oh, I want to make movies like that, but I guess I was feeling that without realizing it. The same as when I finally woke up and said, I want to be a director." 

(Arthur Hiller, regista; Edmonton, 22 novembre 1923 – Los Angeles, 17 agosto 2016)