More from Buster Keaton

  1. Schenck was supposed to be my producer but he never knew when or what I was shooting. He just turned me loose.
  2. The moment you give me a locomotive and things like that to play with, as a rule I find some way of getting laughs with it.
  3. In 1928, I made the worst mistake of my career. Against my better judgment I let Joe Schenck talk me into giving up my own studio to make p…
  4. Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.
  5. If they're going to like anything of mine, they'll like The General.
  6. He was by his whole style and nature so much the most deeply 'silent' of the silent comedians that even a smile was as deafeningly out of k…
  7. I said, 'how am I gonna keep from flinching?' He said, 'Look away from me. When I say turn, it'll be there.' He put my head where my feet w…
  8. No other comedian could do as much with the dead-pan. He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things; a one tra…

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