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.

The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.