Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.

Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

I am more lost in wonder than ever.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than on…there was something touching and appealing about her.