Throughout My Pictures I Employ

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.

There Arose A Belief In Style - And In Banality. Banality Encompassed Politics, Too, Because It Was A Common Belief That Politics Were Not Worthy Of Art.

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

A Director In Hollywood In My Time Couldn't Do What He Wanted To Do.

This Is The Dialectic - There Is A Very Short Distance Between High Art And Trash, And Trash That Contains An Element Of Craziness Is By This Very Quality Nearer To Art.