When we first came to America, I bought a tiny piece of land far out in the country. But there was no place to live on it, only a shed.
When we first came to America, I bought a tiny piece of land far out in the country. But there was no place to live on it, only a shed.
So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.
I knew Law, and I knew theater. I didn't, of course, know American law, and in America the theater did not exist, except for Broadway.
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.
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.
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.
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