You Have To Think With The Heart.

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

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

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

There Is A Wonderful Expression: Seeing Through A Glass Darkly. Everything, Even Life, Is Inevitably Removed From You. You Can't Reach, Or Touch, The Real. You Just See Reflections

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.