I Am To Provide The Public With

The Silent Pictures Were The Purest Form Of Cinema

I Was An Uncommonly Unattractive Young Man.

In Films Murders Are Always Very Clean. I Show How Difficult It Is And What A Messy Thing It Is To Kill A Man.

Making A Film Means, First Of All, To Tell A Story. That Story Can Be An Improbable One, But It Should Never Be Banal. It Must Be Dramatic And Human. What Is Drama, After All, But Life With The Dull Bits Cut Out?

In The Documentary The Basic Material Has Been Created By God, Whereas In The Fiction Film The Director Is A God; He Must Create Life.