Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's "Pastoral." A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.

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

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

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.

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

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.