In The 19th Century, You Had Bourgeois

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

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

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

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

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