I was always flattered, but I just want my movies to make money. I want to be commercial. I'm never the person who says, "I don't care if people don't see my movies." I always want people to see my movies.

I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

When I was young, no one wanted to be one; now even the President of the United States would call himself an outsider. So now I'm for insiders.

No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.

People vomitied at my movies; not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway.

William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.

Coke didn't last long enough; it gave me a hangover for two weeks for being high for ten minutes.