Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

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.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'

The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion.

You can work with me—or you can wade through the blood and bodies after I'm done.

Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.

Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.

We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.