Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book? Writers became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve.

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

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

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

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