- Those of us who became film producers hailed from all sorts of occupations--furriers, magicians, butchers, boilermakers--and for this reason highbrows have often poked fun at us. Yet one thing is certain: every man who succeeded was a born showman. And once in show business he was never happy out of it.
- [After first reading the script of Broken Blossoms (1936)] You bring me a picture like this and want money for it? You may as well put your hand in my pocket and steal it. It isn't commercial. Everyone in it dies.
- The public is never wrong.
- [on Clara Bow] She danced even when her feet were not moving.
- [on Rudolph Valentino] His acting is largely confined to protruding his large, almost occult eyes until the vast areas of white are visible, drawing back the lips of his wide, sensuous mouth to bare his gleaming teeth, and flaring his nostrils.
- [on William S. Hart] He was the actor I loved the most. Although the scenarios of the first westerns were less complicated than those of today, he had a fastidiousness and a professional conscience without parallel to see that each line of the script was minutely respected. He was a gentleman of the kind not found today.
- If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
- Fish stinks from the head.
- I was impressed by the moral potentialities of the screen.
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