A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

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.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.

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