I Think The Great Artists (..) Have

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.

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

In The 19th Century, You Had Bourgeois Art Without Politics - An Almost Frozen Idea Of What Beauty Is.

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

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.