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

If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?

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.

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

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

The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.

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