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.
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?