Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture is good, it's mysterious, with things unsaid.
In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings. - Ernst Lubitsch
In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.
- Ernst Lubitsch
I've been to Paris, France, and I've been to Paris, Paramount. I think I prefer Paris, Paramount - Ernst Lubitsch
I've been to Paris, France, and I've been to Paris, Paramount. I think I prefer Paris, Paramount
You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But reme… - Ernst Lubitsch
You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But reme…
The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four. - Ernst Lubitsch
The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four.
There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one. - Ernst Lubitsch
There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.
Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid, it's a lousy picture… - Ernst Lubitsch
Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid, it's a lousy picture…
It is the task of the scenarist to invent little pieces of business that are so characteristic and give so deep an insight into his creatures, that t… - Ernst Lubitsch
It is the task of the scenarist to invent little pieces of business that are so characteristic and give so deep an insight into his creatures, that t…
I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard. - Ernst Lubitsch
I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.
Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside. - Ernst Lubitsch
Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.
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