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Rupert Hughes
9 quotes
“We movie people should not be afraid of what people will say of our work. We should not allow a word or a theory to drive us into anything or away from anything without some strong inner reason. Most of all, we should not be afraid of popularity and of financial success. Success is like posterity brought within our immediate vicinity. To have pleased millions of people with comedy, pathos or a well-constructed story is to have done a glorious thing. You can call it art, merchandise, trash or wooden nutmegs, but you cannot rob it of its noble mission—to cast light into dark places.”
Rupert Hughes (1872–1956) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Talk delivered at a luncheon given by Samuel Goldwvn in New York. "Criticism? What Difference Does It Make?", Motion Picture News (January 14, 1922) p. 499
“You can't use imitation silk before the motion picture camera. The lens is even quicker to detect imitation emotion.”
Rupert Hughes (1872–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Horace said: "He who would make others weep, must first have wept himself." Every motion picture director should have that on his wall.”
Rupert Hughes (1872–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ever since I was six years old people have been prophesying that I was going to kill myself with overwork. All the prophets are now dead.”
Rupert Hughes (1872–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We could make some very fine motion pictures if we didn't have to bother with cameras and lights.”
Rupert Hughes (1872–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The censors are going to stop crime by censoring the films. Why don't they put an end to diseases by burning the medical books which describe them?”
Rupert Hughes (1872–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When an actor loses control of himself he loses control of his audience.”
Rupert Hughes (1872–1956) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Written down by Colleen Moore and reported in The Moving Picture World (May 13, 1922) p. 167
“Of course they put communist propaganda in the movies! They paint a rich man as a fiend. They make every rich man in a play look like a fat boy in a museum, and every poor boy is made out as a skeleton. Actually, the only millionaires I've ever known were skinny dyspeptics—look at Rockefeller.”
Rupert Hughes (1872–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Woman's intuition is the result of millions of years of not thinking.”
Rupert Hughes (1872–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed in Colin Willock (ed.) The Man's Book (London: Edward Hulton, 1958) p. 353