Rupert Hughes

Quotes

• “You can't use imitation silk before the motion picture camera. The lens is even quicker to detect imitation emotion.”
• “Horace said: "He who would make others weep, must first have wept himself." Every motion picture director should have that on his wall.”
• “Ever since I was six years old people have been prophesying that I was going to kill myself with overwork. All the prophets are now dead.”
• “We could make some very fine motion pictures if we didn't have to bother with cameras and lights.”
• “The censors are going to stop crime by censoring the films. Why don't they put an end to diseases by burning the medical books which describe them?”
• “When an actor loses control of himself he loses control of his audience.”

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