I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

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

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least partially to blame, and that this country is so blissfully enslaved by the notion of the special sanctity of the expert that an overtly anti-expert film was bound to go too much against the national grain.