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.
I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.
Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.
Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.
And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
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.