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

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

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.

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.

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.