The French make two mistakes about me. They think I'm an intellectual because I wear these glasses and they think I'm an artist because my films lose money.

Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.

Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing 'Embraceable You' in spats.

The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned.

I see no advantages in aging whatsoever. You become shriveled. You become decrepit. You lose your faculties. Your peer group passes away. You sit in a room gumming your porridge. I don't see any advantage in this whatsoever.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

The heart is a very, very resilient little muscle. It really is.