The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant way to pass the time waiting for the studio to call.