I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.

I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.

Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.

Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.

I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.

As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.

I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.

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Feedback is an opinion, grounded in observations and experiences, which allows us to know what impression we make on others.

Life is the reflection of consciousness. Change your consciousness and your life will change.

As it was, being a Zimbabwean immigrant was the worst thing a person could be in Southern Africa. They were the new Hebrews – homeless.

My potential is limitless, but the day is holding me back.

Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.

Sometimes you have to be uncomfortable.

To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.

The honeymoon phase always ends, for everyone.

Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.