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.

If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.

You have to think with the heart.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.