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.

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

You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

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.