I Worked For Ufa As A Set

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

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

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

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.

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.