"The public is steadily getting harder to please, particularly so far as comedies are concerned. The time is past and almost forgotten when you could be sure of a laugh by merely making one of your actors walk up behind another and suddenly push him down or trip him, or do any one of the scores of stunts the old slapstick comedian was able to get away with."
(Mack Sennett, pseudonimo di Michael Sinnott, attore, sceneggiatore, regista, produttore cinematografico, detto "il re della commedia" ai tempi del cinema muto; Danville, 17 gennaio 1880 – Woodland Hills, 5 novembre 1960)