Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.

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.

I have no great message to the world.

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.