I Think The Great Artists (..) Have

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

I Considered That The Homes That People Live In Exactly Describe Their Lives.

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.

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.

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.