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

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.

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

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.

A poem is a painting with imagery and words

The person who knows how to adjust to others, he will not have any suffering. ‘Adjust everywhere’.

Love is a red rose

I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand.

A few photographers make a killing; the rest can't make a living.

What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life

Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.

It's easier to deny the reality of the problem altogether than acknowledge that it is real.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.