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

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.

Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.

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

I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.

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