Criticism is the essence of creation.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.

It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.

There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.