A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. |
Agents are like tires on a car; in order to get anywhere at all, you need at least four of them, and they need to be rotated every 5,000 miles. |
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation. |
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius. |
Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also. |
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper |
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper. |
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon. |
He has Van Gogh's ear for music. |
he was himself, with all the quirks that a human being has. |
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. |
Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood. |
I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons. |
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut. |
I just always think, "Do I like it?" And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too. |