France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

God save me from myself.

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.

Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.