Ernst Lubitsch

“Let them guess. If I tell them, they'll be disappointed.”

“A director must be a master of suggestion.”

“There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.”

“It is the task of the director to create a little world, but a whole world, on the screen.”

“Comedy is a serious business.”

“I've been to Paris, France and I've been to Paris, Paramount. I think I prefer Paris, Paramount.”

“I let the audience use their imaginations. I don't show them everything. They are more intelligent than you think.”

“What I want to do is to make pictures that are not for the moment, but are for all time.”