The best director is the one you don't see.

I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.

I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School, we’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

One's too many and a hundred's not enough.

Develop a clean line of action for your leading character