I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.

I, you know, am all over the place — every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make, like Hitchcock did, one Hitchcock picture after another. … I wanted to do a Hitchcock picture, so I did `Witness for the Prosecution,’ then I was bored with it, so I moved on.

Develop a clean line of action for your leading character

I hate that word. It's return--a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen.

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?

Money makes even bastards legitimate.

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