The more I watch contemporary movies, the more I go back to him.

“The very concept of genre is as cold as the tomb. And is Chaplin comedy? No: he is Chaplin, pure and simple and unique, never to be repeated. In the most absurd situation Chaplin is completely natural, and that is why he is funny. Chaplin is such a classic, so complete in himself, that he might have died three hundred years ago”. Andrey Tarkovsky