Ernst Lubitsch famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Cameras #Way #Thousand
The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four.
-- Ernst Lubitsch

#Jobs #Two #Directors
Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.
-- Ernst Lubitsch

#Play #Trying #Circus
I've been to Paris, France, and I've been to Paris, Paramount. I think I prefer Paris, Paramount
-- Ernst Lubitsch

#Thinking #Paris #France
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.
-- Ernst Lubitsch

#Secret #Good Movie #Directors
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

#Mediocrity #Sometimes #Said
In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.
-- Ernst Lubitsch

#Order #Smell #Hollywood
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

#Stars #Men #Names
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 their personalities clearly and organically unfold before the eyes of the audience so that the latter feel that the actions of these people are contingent upon their characters, that there exists some kind of a logical fate, and that nothing is left to mere accident or coincidence.
-- Ernst Lubitsch

#Eye #Character #Fate

There is a bit of acting involved when you get in front of a camera for a video. Even when you perform onstage, you're putting on a show.
The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.
It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.
I am officially Jewish, but Iâ€™m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.
If one mouse is a spark...then ten thousand are a conflagration.

Ernst Lubitsch famous quotes

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