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

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?

Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.

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

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

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.