God save me from myself.

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.

Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book? Writers became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve.

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

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.

Make subtlety obvious.

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.