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Mania Akbari Talks About Life, Love Green cities plan for the Planet The film that crashed the Oscars Taking food wrapped with used newspapers can cause diseases Life Incarnate ART & CULTURE Portrait of a director TOM ARNOLD I am curious about whether you felt you had any intellectual colleagues in '50s Hollywood.

Certainly it wasn't like Germany in the '20s.

Well, let us go back to after the warm.

I was a university guy - 1/2 literary, 1/2 a painter.

And it really began with Einstein.

We attended his lectures.

Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory.

It has not been proven.

But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world.

Now in theory, if there is no straight line in the universe, this has its effect on art.

Art must consist of something bent, something curved.

We had come back from the war, and we were really too old for the university.

We had seen too much.

The war was the end of an era, in art as well.

And we were trying to create a new philosophy.

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

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

We were trying to negate beauty, and negate that art which was a synonym for beauty.

We were soaked with it.

We were deeply steeped in Art.

We were looking for some...

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