France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper..

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films..

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 mak….

After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school….

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 ….

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's..

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation..

I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all..

I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on..

On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly..

The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire..

I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes..

I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too..

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….

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original..

When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth..

The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius..

Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the….

I hate that word. It's return--a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen..

Money makes even bastards legitimate..

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award..