Ernst Lubitsch Quotes

"I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better."
-Ernst Lubitsch

"There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one."
-Ernst Lubitsch

"I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard."
-Ernst Lubitsch

"Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside."
-Ernst Lubitsch

"You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is."
-Ernst Lubitsch