An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagan….

I'm German, after all..

Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you..

I improve in misquotation..

A lot of stuff I do, 10 years later it becomes popular..

Why be timid? Death is coming..

Whatever you wear, you have to own it. Make it yours..

Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized..

We travel just to travel..

I never dreamed I would do Westerns..

I don’t work. I merely inflict myself on the public..

I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures..

Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards..

Don't leave. Stay, and make things better..

You develop faith by doing things that require faith..

What I meant was, you looked happier in the pictures..

As an actor - and I say actor, but actress or actor, whatever - I've had to learn to be very open about what I want. I ask for it, even if I may not ….

Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head an….

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something compl….

All great acheivements require time..

Being able to make a living doing something one truly loves to do - is my definition of success..