After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano. She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you're really in the presence of something. In that league there's only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It's a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you've found it.

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

Make subtlety obvious.

I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.

A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.

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

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.