I just thought here is comedy, here is tragedy. That is the way life is. I just tried to do it true to life. |
I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we're dealing with, and that we're not making a picture for Harvard Law School, we're making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people. |
I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel. |
I would worship the ground you walk on, Audrey, if you only lived in a better neighborhood. |
I, you know, am all over the place -- every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make, like Hitchcock did, one Hitchcock picture after another. . . . I wanted to do a Hitchcock picture, so I did "Witness for the Prosecution," then I was bored with it, so I moved on. |
I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood. |
I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood. |
I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes. |
If there's anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously. |
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you. |
It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now we have something to look down on. (Of Television) |
It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful. |
Let us not forget that Mr. Hitler was Austrian. . . . I always get into terrible fights with the newspapermen there, because I remember my days in school. I remember the attitudes. |
Making movies is a little like walking into a dark room. Some people stumble across furniture, others break their legs, but some of us see better in the dark than others. The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius. |
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. |