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

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

You're as good as the best thing you've ever done.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

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

When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.

You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.