I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.

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.

Did I see them waving?' said Mrs Liberty'And particling, I shouldn't wonder' said the Alderman

Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug.

Expect abundance to receive abundance.

Be positive at every moment of life. See the good things in every situation and learn from them

I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.

The films I do always have a happy ending. I hope it reflects back to real life.

I am really cautious about what I say and do.

A happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.

I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.