Quote #28
There are moments in many of his movies that are just poetic... In doing silent movies, no one had done this yet!
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- Watch his beautiful, compact body as it pirouettes or pretzels in tortured permutations or, even more elegantly, stands in repose as everyt…
- For me its Buster Keaton's face, with maybe his little hat on... It's being able to look into his eyes and see that sad face.
- I just want that one day, when I retire, that people still remember me like they remember Buster. I really want someone to respect me the w…
- He was doing stuff that was surreal.
- What a creative genius - what an inventor... A guy like that, you just sit back and say, okay, I'll never get there!
- It's said that Chaplin wanted you to like him, but Keaton didn't care. I think he cared, but was too proud to ask.
- I could tell you that those wonderful stories were 90% Buster's... I was often ashamed to take the money, much less the credit.
- With his dark, sensitive looks, his face in repose evoking years of quiet contemplation, he resembled a mixture of Buddhist monk and fashio…