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

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

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

Money makes even bastards legitimate.

Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's "Pastoral." A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

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