James Whale Quotes

A director must be pretty bad if he can`t get a thrill out of war, murder, robbery.

(on Boris Karloff) His face fascinated me. I made drawings of his head, adding sharp bony ridges where I imagined the skull might have joined.

(to Paul Robeson, upon hearing and seeing the "Ol` Man River" sequence in Whale`s 1936 film Show Boat (1936)) The spine-chilling effect of that one song was something I shall never forget.

Gods and Monsters

Hollywood is just too marvelous. One feels the footprints of all the immortals are here, but has a terrible feeling that they are in sand and won`t last when civilization comes this way.