I Never Regarded My Pictures As Very

You Have To Think With The Heart.

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.

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.

Intellectualism Came Very Late To America. That's Why Americans Are So Proud Of It. I Found Very Few Real Intellectuals In America. But There Are So Many Pseudo-intellectuals.

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