The best director is the one you don't see.
They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.
What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man. Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.