The first thing I did in the studio was to want to tear that camera to pieces. I had to know how that film got into the cutting room, what you did to it in there, how you projected it, how you finally got the picture together, how you made things match. The technical part of pictures is what interested me. Material was the last thing in the world I thought about. You only had to turn me loose on the set and I`d have material in two minutes, because I`d been doing it all my life.
I gotta do some sad scenes. Why, I never tried to make anybody cry in my life! And I go `round all the time dolled up in kippie clothes-wear everythi… - Buster Keaton
I gotta do some sad scenes. Why, I never tried to make anybody cry in my life! And I go `round all the time dolled up in kippie clothes-wear everythi…
- Buster Keaton
The first thing I did in the studio was to want to tear that camera to pieces. I had to know how that film got into the cutting room, what you did to… - Buster Keaton
The first thing I did in the studio was to want to tear that camera to pieces. I had to know how that film got into the cutting room, what you did to…
Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face, and, believe it or not, "a tragic mask."… - Buster Keaton
Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face, and, believe it or not, "a tragic mask."…
I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind - Buster Keaton
I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind
No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat. - Buster Keaton
No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.
Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter. - Buster Keaton
Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.
All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, `Look at the poor dope, wilya? - Buster Keaton
All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, `Look at the poor dope, wilya?
The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the bruises [...] the secret is in landi… - Buster Keaton
The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the bruises [...] the secret is in landi…
Not long ago a friend asked me what was the greatest pleasure I got from spending my whole life as an actor. There have been so many that I had to th… - Buster Keaton
Not long ago a friend asked me what was the greatest pleasure I got from spending my whole life as an actor. There have been so many that I had to th…
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