Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

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?

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.

On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.

If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?

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

[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.