If I Couldn't Read, I Couldn't Live.

A Director In Hollywood In My Time Couldn't Do What He Wanted To Do.

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

This Is The Dialectic - There Is A Very Short Distance Between High Art And Trash, And Trash That Contains An Element Of Craziness Is By This Very Quality Nearer To Art.

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 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