I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

I don't think any word can explain a man's life.

I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

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

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.