I don't approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn't care for it, or feels offended by it, they rip up the seats.

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

Whenever something is convenient or was modified after 1970, you probably shouldn't use it as root.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.

Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.

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.

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