Throughout My Pictures I Employ A Lighting

My Idea At This Time, Which Was Slowly Developing, Was To Create A Comedie Humaine With Little People, Average People - Samples From Every Period In American Life.

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

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.

You Have To Think With The Heart.

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