Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?.

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer..

Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood's Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have eve….

I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons..

One's too many and a hundred's not enough..

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut..

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood..

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon..

The best director is the one you don't see..

A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on televisio….

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 Hitc….

It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder can sometimes smell l….

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood..

The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they stil….

God save me from myself..

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty..

My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu..

I am big. It's the pictures that got small..

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre..

You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the….

Develop a clean line of action for your leading character.