Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

Make subtlety obvious.

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

The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

One's too many and a hundred's not enough.

Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book? Writers became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve.