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At the same time, of course, Marxism arose – Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism – and art became political.
I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.
I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.
Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered.
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.
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.
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.
A director in Hollywood in my time couldn’t do what he wanted to do.
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.
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics – an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.
If I couldn’t read, I couldn’t live.
If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.
Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.
Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.
Intellectualism came very late to America. That’s why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.
And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
