A picture without falls is as bad as Niagara in the same fix. — Buster Keaton

"Our hero came from Nowhere — he wasnt going Anywhere and he got kicked off Somewhere."

"One who never smiled, carried a face as still and sad as a daguerreotype through some of the most preposterously ingenious and visually satisfying comedy ever invented. That was Buster Keaton."

"I could tell you that those wonderful stories were 90% Busters... I was often ashamed to take the money, much less the credit."

"I just want that one day, when I retire, that people still remember me like they remember Buster. I really want someone to respect me the way they respect Buster."

"Watch his beautiful, compact body as it pirouettes or pretzels in tortured permutations or, even more elegantly, stands in repose as everything goes crazy around it. Watch his mind as it contemplates a hostile universe whose violent whims Buster understands, withstands and, miraculously, tames. Watch his camera taking his picture (Keaton directed or supervised all his best films); it is as cool as the star it captured in its glass... The medium was still in its infancy; comics were pioneering the craft of making people laugh at moving images. Keaton, it turns out, knew it all — intuitively."

"If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear Ill jump out the window."