The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it..

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch..

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant..

The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream..

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people..

On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''.

By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment..

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Inno….

A movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had..

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present..

You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing to another. The Japane….

Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end..

Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy..

Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things..

A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens..

I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described ….

When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phon….

[I have a] fondness for telling stories, like the Arab storytellers on the marketplace. ... I will never grow tired of [telling] stories [and] I make….

Criticism is the essence of creation..

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents..

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest..