“The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.”
W.C. Fields

“It would have been more logical if silent movies had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way round.”
Mary Pickford

“The bigger the picture, the bigger the ticket, the better.”
Burt Lancaster

“There might have been good movies if there had been no movie industry.”
David O. Selznick

“The moment an audience starts to itch around you have lost them.”
Fritz Lang