People copy, people steal. Most of the pictures they make nowadays are loaded down with special effects. I couldn't do that. I quit smoking because I couldn't reload my Zippo.
[To a cameraman on one of his pictures] Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.