Rupert Hughes

thumb| Rupert Raleigh Hughes (January 31, 1872 – September 9, 1956) was an American novelist, film director, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, military officer, and music composer. 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. 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. Horace said: "He who would make others weep, must first have wept himself." Every motion picture director should have that on his wall. 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. We could make some very fine motion pictures if we didn't have to bother with cameras and lights. 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? When an actor loses control of himself he loses control of his audience. 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. Quoted in Dan Gilbert, Moscow Over Hollywood (Washington, D.C.: Christian Press Bureau, n.d.) ch. 7, p. 52 Woman's intuition is the result of millions of years of not thinking. Attributed in Colin Willock (ed.) The Man's Book (London: Edward Hulton, 1958) p. 353 External links Category:1872 births Category:1956 deaths Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Screenwriters from the United States Category:Yale University alumni Category:People from Missouri Category:People from Iowa Category:Film directors from the United States Category:Composers from the United States Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Anti-communists from the United States