At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

Political correctness is cultural Marxism

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.