And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.
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.
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.