A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.

I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.

Learn, because life is ahead of you. Live, because death is before you. Listen, because wisdom is all around you. Love, because God is inside of you.

Creativity is an act of defiance.

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

If I'm in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.

Barack Obama is incompetent. All he wants to do is campaign, and the last thing he wants to happen is to have Donald Trump terminate Obamacare.

How dare we be pessimistic? Maybe the future is better than it used to be.

Sometimes when I don't want to cry, I cry. And when I want to I can't. It's subconscious. Like sexual performance.

Do not pay too much attention to the advice or suggestions of those around you.