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

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.

The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.