Your Characters Have To Remain

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

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.

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.

There Is A Wonderful Expression: Seeing Through A Glass Darkly. Everything, Even Life, Is Inevitably Removed From You. You Can't Reach, Or Touch, The Real. You Just See Reflections

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.