I Worked For Ufa As A Set

Throughout My Pictures I Employ A Lighting Which Is Not Naturalistic.

There Is A Wonderful Expression: Seeing Through A Glass Darkly. Everything, Even Life, Is Inevitably Removed From You. You Can't Reach, Or Touch, The Real. You Just See Reflections

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.

I Was Making Films About American Society, And It Is True That I Never Felt At Home There, Except Perhaps When My Wife And I Lived On A Farm In The San Fernando Valley. But I Always Wanted My Characters To Be More Than Cyphers For The Failings Of Their World. And I Never Had To Look Too Hard To Find A Part Of Myself In Them

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.