Charlie Chaplin — "I'm not working in the political arena. I'm working in the human arena. Had I in…"
I'm not working in the political arena. I'm working in the human arena. Had I included Stalin, I would surely been getting into politics because there was no reason to include him from the standpoint I was taking.
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English comic actor and silent-film auteur whose Tramp character defined early Hollywood and whose The Great Dictator (1940) satirized Hitler.
Closely associated with
Buster Keaton (silent-comedy peer of equal stature) and Harold Lloyd (third silent-comedy giant).
For an intellectual contrast, see
J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director (1924-1972) — Hoover pursued Chaplin for years on suspected communist sympathies, leading to the 1952 revocation of Chaplin's US re-entry permit and his Swiss exile — Hoover represented the McCarthy-era national-security state that was the institutional opposite of Chaplin's pro-immigrant Tramp humanism.
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Interview, defending his decision not to include Stalin in 'The Great Dictator'.