I have an unfortunate personality.
It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out]
I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
[The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the psychological and economic motivations, the influences of the period in which they lived.
The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.