In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.

- Ernst Lubitsch

The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four.

- Ernst Lubitsch

There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- Ernst Lubitsch

I've been to Paris, France, and I've been to Paris, Paramount. I think I prefer Paris, Paramount

- 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.

- Ernst Lubitsch

Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.

- Ernst Lubitsch