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Make subtlety obvious.
Well, nobody's perfect.
God save me from myself.
He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
One's too many and a hundred's not enough.
The best director is the one you don't see.
I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
I just made pictures I would've liked to see.
I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
You're as good as the best thing you've ever done.
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?
Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man. Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
I hate that word. It's return--a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.
When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.