In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.
Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.
If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.
People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.
In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent.
Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.