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"In this book I do not intend to give a blow-by-blow description of a sex bout: I find them inartistic, clinical and unpoetic. The circumstances that lead up to sex I find more interesting."
"Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film."
"What can stars do? Nothing..But sit on their axis!"
"From such trivia, I believe my soul was born."
"Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior."
"The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all."
"Let us fight to free the world!"
"Words seem so futile, so feeble. You are all such lovely, beautiful people ... thank you."
"Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics."
"Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis."
"In this desperate way, I started many a comedy."
"The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for it every moment.]"
"I am not religious in the dogmatic sense... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything."
"I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist?"
"This is a story of a period between two World Wars - an interim in which Insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and Humanity was kicked around somewhat."
"In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane"
"I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism - and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films."
"Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!"