"I have yet to know a poor man who has nostalgia for poverty, or who finds freedom in it … I found poverty neither attractive nor edifying. It taught me nothing but a distortion of values, an over-rati…"

"I have lived a full life, and I have no regrets."

"I have learned that I am not alone in my struggles. There are others who suffer as I do."

"It's not the reality that counts in a film, but what imagination can do with it."

"Once again, the same depressing question arose: should I make another silent film? I knew I would take a big risk by doing it. If I spoke, I would become an actor like the others."