The Spectacle Maker (1934)

Christian Rub: Hans Schmidt

Quotes 

• Hans Schmidt : Where are you going?

  The Man in Black : From whence I came. And I take your glass with me, Hans Schmidt. Make no more. For man is not yet ready for truth.

• [first lines] 

  Peter : [after watching other children dancing in street]  Grandpapa, I wish I could dance.

  Hans Schmidt : Tsh. Anyone can dance.

  Peter : That's why I want to.

  Hans Schmidt : Anyone can dance - but not any boy of your age has a chance to learn a trade as good as ours.

• Lens Buyer : If you really wanted to become famous - if you really wish to be the greatest spectacle maker, not only of the village, but of the entire land...

  Hans Schmidt : Yes, sir. Yes, sir!

  Lens Buyer : You'd grind a lens - you'd make a glass - that if one looked through it, one would see not ugliness, only beauty. Beauty!