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

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

Make subtlety obvious.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

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

I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.