If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.

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

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

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

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.

[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

The best director is the one you don't see.