I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

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

If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.

[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.