4 Buster Keaton Quotes on Filmmaking

Buster Keaton quotes on filmmaking

4. Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?

7. The first thing I did in the studio was to want to tear that camera to pieces. I had to know how that film got into the cutting room, what you did to it in there, how you projected it, how you finally got the picture together, how you made things match. The technical part of pictures is what interested me. Material was the last thing in the world I thought about. You only had to turn me loose on the set and I'd have material in two minutes, because I'd been doing it all my life.

10. I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.

35. What Keaton did physically, is actually quite startling when you discover that he did all of his own stunts... The famous one is when the house falls. He had to stand on a mark. I'm told it was a nail - if he moved an inch to one side he would have been crushed to death.