The Great Buster (2018)

Peter Bogdanovich: Self - Narrator

Quotes 

• Narrator : For all his own shorts and features, except for "The General," Buster never had a script. He and his people would come up with a good beginning and then figure out a satisfying finish. As he used to say, "the middle would take care of itself."

• Dick Cavett, Himself : [the Dick Caveat Show, January 21, 1972]  Why did Keaton hit the skids? That seems to me one of the sad mysteries of Hollywood.

  Frank Capra, Himself : Well, he was essentially a pantomime artist. And when sound came along they - the pantomime artists went out of business, really. And also they were killed by - by something brand new: cartoons.

  Peter Bogdanovich, Himself : Chuck Jones who directed most of the great Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner cartoons and he said he was totally influenced by Buster Keaton.

• Narrator : According to Buster's father, Joe, it was the famous magician Harry Houdini, a personal friend of the Keatons, after watching the kid fall down a flight of stairs unhurt at the age of six months, who said, "That's some buster your kid took." Now, it may not have been Houdini who said it, but, what the hell. Buster in those days was known to mean a fall. Nothing could have been more appropriate.

• Narrator : He will, in deed, never be forgotten.