Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitschwas a German American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch"...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth28 January 1892
CountryGermany
play trying circus
Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.
german-director
I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better.
audience german-director help
I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions?
stars men names
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.
order smell hollywood
In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.
mediocrity sometimes said
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.
thinking paris france
I've been to Paris, France, and I've been to Paris, Paramount. I think I prefer Paris, Paramount
good-movie secret directors
Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture is good, it's mysterious, with things unsaid.
character eye fate
It is the task of the scenarist to invent little pieces of business that are so characteristic and give so deep an insight into his creatures, that their personalities clearly and organically unfold before the eyes of the audience so that the latter feel that the actions of these people are contingent upon their characters, that there exists some kind of a logical fate, and that nothing is left to mere accident or coincidence.
jobs two four
The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four.
way cameras thousand
There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.