Lubitsch Quotes

#1. When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I also read 'Flash Gordon' when I was 6, but if I were still reading it when I was 16, I'd have been an imbecile.

Lina Wertmuller

#2. The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education ... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer. The Berlin of the architects Gropius, Mendelsohn and Mies van der Rohe. The Berlin of the painters Max Libermann, Grosz, Otto Dix, Klee and Kandinsky.

Ken Adam

#3. A tip from Lubitsch: 'Let the audience add up two plus two and they'll love you forever.

Charlotte Chandler

#4. On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.

Billy Wilder

#5. My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big fan of the works of John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ernst Lubitsch, and Stan Brakhage. I then decided to make my own films!

Lloyd Kaufman

#6. There are directors you never, ever want to get close to. Lubitsch was one. Outside of the work, I don't think I ever said five words to him. Mamet was pretty much the same thing. His mind is working all the time.

Don Ameche

#7. An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

#8. Make peace, you fools!

Gerd Von Rundstedt

#9. The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.

Harold Geneen

#10. I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions?

Ernst Lubitsch

#11. I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better.

Ernst Lubitsch

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

Ernst Lubitsch

#13. Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.

David Bowie

#14. All you can do is put your story out there enough times and hope that a couple will understand that no matter what type of athlete you are - there were no athletes better than I was, there was no one who had more going for him than I did, there was no athlete stronger mentally than I was.

Lawrence Taylor

#15. Change comes through action.

Christopher Moore

#16. Those are just some of the people whom we interviewed in the documentary, but that should provide you with a good sense of the credibility of the individuals who bolster the case that this administration lied us into a war.

Robert Greenwald

#17. My dad says people who insist that youtrust them usually don't deserve it.

Brandon Mull

#18. Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.

Marian Wright Edelman

#19. 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

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

Ernst Lubitsch

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

Ernst Lubitsch

#22. Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

George Bernard Shaw

#23. Talk is cheap when your words are of no value

Habeeb Akande

#24. 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 remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

Ernst Lubitsch

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

Ernst Lubitsch

#26. Did you ever read the Bible? I mean sit down and read it like it was a book? Check out Lamentations. That's where we're at, pretty much. Pretty much lamenting. Pretty much pouring our hearts out like water.

Peter Heller