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.

Think slow, act fast.

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.

Everybody at Metro was in my gag department, including Irving Thalberg. They'd laugh their heads off at dialogue written by all your new writers. They were joke-happy. They didn't look for action; they were looking for funny things to say.

No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.

I've simply been brought up being knocked down.