Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen. |
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie? |
No good deed goes unpunished. |
Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting. |
People copy, people steal. Most of the pictures they make nowadays are loaded down with special effects. I couldn't do that. I quit smoking because I couldn't reload my Zippo . . . |
Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe . . . nor as utterly fabulous on the screen. |
She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift. Believe me, in the last fifteen years there were ten projects that came to me, and I'd start working on them and I'd think, 'I |
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. |
They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original. |
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. |
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. |
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre |
What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films. |
When I came here, Sunset Boulevard was in the country. It was not even asphalted when I came here in 1934. |
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning. |