A Director In Hollywood In My Time

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

My Idea At This Time, Which Was Slowly Developing, Was To Create A Comedie Humaine With Little People, Average People - Samples From Every Period In American Life.

If I Couldn't Read, I Couldn't Live.

In The 19th Century, You Had Bourgeois Art Without Politics - An Almost Frozen Idea Of What Beauty Is.

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