Alexandre Trauner(1906-1993)

Orson Welles, Billy Wilder and Howard Hawks all said that Trauner was the best set designer ever to work in films.

[on the importance of research in production design]: It's very precise work. If the film takes place in Paris, the Parisians must recognize their neighborhood. What counts in research is not so much exactitude as inventiveness. You can't know everything, but you have to have a developed intuition.