The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.