 An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius. |
| I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes. |
| I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut. |
| I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood. |
| It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful. |
| A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. |
| One's too many, and a hundred's not enough. |
| Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting. |
| Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon. |
| Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. |
| If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you. |
| Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also. |
| Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. |
| Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. |
| An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation. |
| We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre. |
| You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning. |
| France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper. |
| What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films. |
| My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie? |
