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

I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.

If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.

[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.

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