Quote #29
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.
More from Buster Keaton
- There are moments in many of his movies that are just poetic... In doing silent movies, no one had done this yet!
- He was doing stuff that was surreal.
- Watch his beautiful, compact body as it pirouettes or pretzels in tortured permutations or, even more elegantly, stands in repose as everyt…
- 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 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…
- With his dark, sensitive looks, his face in repose evoking years of quiet contemplation, he resembled a mixture of Buddhist monk and fashio…
- What a creative genius - what an inventor... A guy like that, you just sit back and say, okay, I'll never get there!
- Maybe the trouble is that modern comics strive too hard to be sophisticated and knowing. What we've lost over the years is innocence and, a…