I’m an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.
Let us fight for a new world, a decent world!
The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.
If anybody else says it’s like old times, I’ll jump out the window.
3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.
This is a story of a period between two World Wars – an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat.
You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.
If you’re really truthful with yourself, it’s a wonderful guidance.
Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film.
I don’t think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans.
All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
Nothing is more important than the moving image; except for my cup of coffee in the morning.
Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.
I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs.
Your pain may give laughter to somebody, but your laughter shouldn’t give pain to anybody.
Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world’s arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.
I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror.
In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature – or go insane.
There is greatness in everyone.