"Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!"

“I discovered that silent film is almost an advantage. You just have to think of the feeling for it to show. No lines pollute it. It doesn't take much - a gaze, an eyelash flutter - for the emotion to be vivid.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.”

“Life wants to support you. But first you need to be open to life.”

“While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.”

“The domination of capitalism globally depends today on the existence of a Chinese Communist party that gives delocalised capitalist enterprises cheap labour to lower prices and deprive workers of the rights of self-organisation.”

Source : "Why a forgotten 1930s critique of capitalism is back in fashion" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2016.

“What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.”

“Failure is the true test of greatness”

“Words have incredible power. They can make people's hearts soar, or they can make people's hearts sore.”