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.

Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?

I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.

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

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

Develop a clean line of action for your leading character

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.