The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.

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

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

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.

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.

Well, nobody's perfect.

Develop a clean line of action for your leading character