We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.