Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

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 like honeysuckle?

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

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

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