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.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

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

It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?

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

The best director is the one you don't see.

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