Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel.

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.

The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true.

I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.

Unless you do this with an open heart, I don’t think anything will come of it.

They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.

Life is too short to drink the house wine.

If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'

Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.

If we are so rich, why aren't we happy?

Beauty is not beauty without love.

You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want using whatever life gives you along the way.