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

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

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

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.

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

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

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