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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.

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

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

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