“What you call film noir I call ‘psychological drama.’ It reflects the fact that there are so many facets in human beings. And that is why I don’t know if anyone else calls it ‘psychological drama’ but I do. At that time, to myself, it was psychological and dramatic, because it showed all these facets of human experience and conflict, that these women [femme fatales] could be involved with their heart and yet could think with their mind.”