Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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.
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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.
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.
