The Cameraman Quotes

  • Sally Richards: [advice to the aspiring cameraman] You must always grind forward... never backward.

  • Edward J. Blake: [after screening Luke Shannon's lost newsreel footage] That's the best camera work I've seen in years! Get that man in here quick!

  • Office Worker: What are you doin'... givin' me a sleigh-ride?

  • Buster: Where's the fire? Up there there's a fire down here, they said.

    Cop: In which house?

    Buster: No! It's not in a which house... it's in a warehouse!

    Cop: Now... where is it?

    Buster: Where's what?

    Cop: Where's the which house? I mean... which's the warehouse?

    Buster: Which warehouse... where?

  • Title Card: Within an hour he was photographing everything from soup to nuts... mostly the nuts.

  • Buster: Aren't the Yankees playing today?

    Yankee Stadium Groundskeeper: Sure... in St. Louis!

  • Sally Richards: Don't be discouraged. No one would ever amount to anything if he didn't try.

  • Buster: This is *my* dressing room!

    Man in Bath-House: Shut up... or it'll be your coffin!

  • Man in Bath-House: Will you keep out of my undershirt?

  • Cop: Did you ever find that flame you were looking for?

  • Cop: I'll try your reflexes to see if you're goofy.

  • Sally Richards: Chinatown is celebrating a holiday. It may be worth taking. Go on down.

  • Organ Grinder: [to Buster who ran into him and knocked out his monkey] Now, see! You kill-a de monk!

    Cop: Pay him for that baboon... or I'll run you in!

  • Edward J. Blake: It's the Tong War!

Extended Reading
  • Dianna 2022-04-10 09:01:09

    The front is funny, the bus, the swimming pool, the locker room. No fun starting in Chinatown

  • Nicholas 2022-04-09 09:01:09

    The Chinese Chinatown gang fight is the most interesting, as if taken to another world of adventure. Hollywood-style personal heroism, and finally embrace the beauty. Keaton, who has developed motor nerves, is still running all the way~