--- title: "2 Chaplin Quotes By Edward Jay Epstein" description: "2 Chaplin quotes by Edward Jay Epstein. Plus more from Edward Jay Epstein and more Chaplin sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65c/edward-jay-epstein-28064_alliances_what-guided-chaplin-was-the-proper-prote_558796.jpg" --- > [What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and William S Hart, made an alliance, called United Artists, whereby they would own a distribution company that would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-jay-epstein/what-guided-chaplin-was-the-proper-protection-of-self-interest-or/) [Edward Jay Epstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-jay-epstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65c/edward-jay-epstein-28064_alliances_what-guided-chaplin-was-the-proper-prote_558796.jpg) > [In 1972 Charlie Chaplin was allowed back to America to receive an honorary Oscar, 'for the incalculable he had on making motion pictures the art form of this century'. That's what the Academy was always for - to blur the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-jay-epstein/in-1972-charlie-chaplin-was-allowed-back-to-america-to-receive-an/) [Edward Jay Epstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-jay-epstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78b/edward-jay-epstein-28064_academy_in-1972-charlie-chaplin-was-allowed-back_2577535.jpg) ## Other authors on Chaplin ## More by Edward Jay Epstein > [The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-jay-epstein/the-discrepancy-between-what-actually-happened-and-the-version-of/) [Edward Jay Epstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-jay-epstein/) > [We have a thriving subculture of 'independent' American movies that makes an impact on America as a whole roughly equivalent to that of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-jay-epstein/we-have-a-thriving-subculture-of-independent-american-movies-that/) [Edward Jay Epstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-jay-epstein/) > [Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-jay-epstein/who-can-now-deny-the-loss-of-natural-light-of-skin-tones-of-real/) [Edward Jay Epstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-jay-epstein/) > [“Snowden’s penetration went beyond whistle-blowing, however. In the vast number of files he copied were documents that contained the NSA’s most sensitive sources and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-jay-epstein/snowden-s-penetration-went-beyond-whistle-blowing-however-in-the-vast/) [Edward Jay Epstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-jay-epstein/) > [The problem of journalism is simple. Journalists are rarely in a position to establish the truth of an issue themselves, since they didn't' witness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-jay-epstein/the-problem-of-journalism-is-simple-journalists-are-rarely-in-a/) [Edward Jay Epstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-jay-epstein/) > [In the first week of the showings of the The Matrix Revolutions, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II played on cable television. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-jay-epstein/in-the-first-week-of-the-showings-of-the-the-matrix-revolutions-the/) [Edward Jay Epstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-jay-epstein/) > [What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and William S…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-jay-epstein/what-guided-chaplin-was-the-proper-protection-of-self-interest-or/) [Edward Jay Epstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-jay-epstein/) > [“Unless one is willing to believe that the Putin regime acted out of purely altruistic motives in exfiltrating this American intelligence worker to Moscow,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-jay-epstein/unless-one-is-willing-to-believe-that-the-putin-regime-acted-out-of/) [Edward Jay Epstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-jay-epstein/) > [“Greenwald told the Associated Press that the documents that Snowden had taken from the NSA constituted “the instruction manual for how the NSA is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-jay-epstein/greenwald-told-the-associated-press-that-the-documents-that-snowden/) [Edward Jay Epstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-jay-epstein/) > [I regret the way that America has elected to make films for its bluntest section of society and in ways that flatter them, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-jay-epstein/i-regret-the-way-that-america-has-elected-to-make-films-for-its/) [Edward Jay Epstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-jay-epstein/) > [“He further disclosed that before leaving the NSA, he had gained access to the lists of computers that the NSA had penetrated in foreign…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-jay-epstein/he-further-disclosed-that-before-leaving-the-nsa-he-had-gained-access/) [Edward Jay Epstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-jay-epstein/) > [“would strain credibility that such privileges would be awarded to an intelligence defector who had refused to cooperate with Russian authorities.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-jay-epstein/would-strain-credibility-that-such-privileges-would-be-awarded-to-an/) [Edward Jay Epstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-jay-epstein/) > [Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in the years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-jay-epstein/louis-b-mayer-is-one-of-those-with-a-claim-to-posessing-the-equation/) [Edward Jay Epstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-jay-epstein/) > [The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-jay-epstein/the-deer-hunter-is-securely-on-my-list-of-american-movie-events-by/) [Edward Jay Epstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-jay-epstein/) > [Bonnie and Clyde became not just a big hit, but a movie that went through young audiences like a first slug of Scotch. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-jay-epstein/bonnie-and-clyde-became-not-just-a-big-hit-but-a-movie-that-went/) [Edward Jay Epstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-jay-epstein/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chaplin/edward-jay-epstein/#itemlist", "name": "2 Chaplin Quotes By Edward Jay Epstein", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). 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