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

And In Movies You Must Be A Gambler. To Produce Films Is To Gamble.

Your Characters Have To Remain Innocent Of What Your Picture Is After.

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

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.

If I Can Say One Thing For My Pictures, It Is A Certain Craftsmanship. A Thought Which Has Gone Into Every Angle. There Is Nothing There Without An Optical Reason.