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

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.

At The Time I Belonged To The Socialist Party, And Hitler Came To Power.

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

For A House, Somewhere Near Los Angeles I Found An Old Church. Very Old, No Longer Used. So We Moved The Church To The Land, And I Took Off The Steeple, And I Got My Hands Dirty.

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.