“He [Lubitsch] arrived in Hollywood in the early twenties with an avalanche of European people, actors, directors. They came because they were searched out by Mr. Louis B. Mayer, who had gone to Europe to look at talents. Whereas I came here because I didn’t want to be in an oven”.
Billy Wilder (Cameron Crowe, Conversations with Wilder).
Billy Wilder (Cameron Crowe, Conversations with Wilder).