Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.

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.

Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.

Life demands something else, discomfort and pain.

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

People love honesty. Honesty is medicinal, I think. It makes people feel less lonely in the world.

In the daytime, you act the way you should act because that is what people pay you for, or want from you.

The best form of meditation is the sitting meditation. But work is next. Work is a great way to meditate.

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!

A lot of people misunderstand me. That's because they don't know me at all.

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

I'm a happy fellow. I feel very privileged, lucky, that I have had a wonderful life. And that I have been always allowed to do what I love.