The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.

Love-making is an art which must be studied.

The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.

After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.