In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.

You have to think with the heart.

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.

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.