A Director In Hollywood In My Time

There Arose A Belief In Style - And In Banality. Banality Encompassed Politics, Too, Because It Was A Common Belief That Politics Were Not Worthy Of Art.

And In Movies You Must Be A Gambler. To Produce Films Is To Gamble.

At The Time I Belonged To The Socialist Party, And Hitler Came To Power.

Yes, I Was Hired By Universal Because They Needed A Comedy Director. They Had Seen Scandal And Liked It. I Saw An Opportunity Even In Those Comedies To Begin My Project Of American Films.

I Never Regarded My Pictures As Very Much To Be Proud Of, Except In This, The Craft, The Style.