What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.
One's too many and a hundred's not enough.
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.