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?

When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.

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

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

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

Make subtlety obvious.

I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.