A Director In Hollywood In My Time

A Director In Hollywood In My Time Couldn't Do What He Wanted To Do.

This Is The Dialectic - There Is A Very Short Distance Between High Art And Trash, And Trash That Contains An Element Of Craziness Is By This Very Quality Nearer To Art.

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

So Slowly In My Mind Formed The Idea Of Melodrama, A Form I Found To Perfection In American Pictures. They Were Naive, They Were That Something Completely Different. They Were Completely Art-less.

I Worked For Ufa As A Set Designer, You Know.