"I know of but one meek, humble man who accomplished anything. That was more than 1,900 years ago, and I'm not so sure…"

"Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing."

"An interviewer once asked him whether he had any advice for young writers starting out. "No," he answered, "if a writ…"

"We movie people should not be afraid of what people will say of our work. We should not allow a word or a theory to d…"

"You can't use imitation silk before the motion picture camera. The lens is even quicker to detect imitation emotion."

"Horace said: "He who would make others weep, must first have wept himself." Every motion picture director should have…"

"Ever since I was six years old people have been prophesying that I was going to kill myself with overwork. All the pr…"

"We could make some very fine motion pictures if we didn't have to bother with cameras and lights."

"The censors are going to stop crime by censoring the films. Why don't they put an end to diseases by burning the medi…"

"When an actor loses control of himself he loses control of his audience."