Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.

The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

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

I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

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