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

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

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

Well, nobody's perfect.

The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.

I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School, we’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.

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.