When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

I'm a lurid character!