I've been to Paris, France, and I've been to Paris, Paramount. I think I prefer Paris, Paramount

There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.

The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four.

Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.

In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.

I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.

We were born in charge of our own being, our own personality. Other people's personalities are beyond our control.

Self-doubt and Depression are the real killers. The other are just pawns.

In ancient Greece, the word for "cook, " "butcher, " and "priest" was the same -- mageiros -- and the word shares an etymological root with "magic.

This is the world in which everyone is sensitised to risk but indifferent to fate.

Wonder is always difficult until you forgive whoever destroyed your love of surprises.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

You can't solve problems with the same thinking that caused them.

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.