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

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.

The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.

I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.

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.

Make subtlety obvious.

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