I Never Regarded My Pictures

I Never Regarded My Pictures As Very Much To Be Proud Of, Except In This, The Craft, The Style.

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.

Rock Hudson Was Not An Educated Man, But That Very Beautiful Body Of His Was Putty In My Hands.

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.

There Arose A Belief In Style - And In Banality. Banality Encompassed Politics, Too, Because It Was A Common Belief That Politics Were Not Worthy Of Art.