Throughout My Pictures I Employ A Lighting

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

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.

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.

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