[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.
The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. […] It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
I am no longer in pictures for money. I am in them because I love them. I am not in vain. I do not care about giving a smashing personal performance. My one ambition is to create fine entertainment.