On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.

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.

You can't help everyone, but.... everyone can help someone.

I write because I know magic happens

Only the man who lives in the laws of GOD is free

I was ten years old when my first Vogue cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.

All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance.

Never trust a baserunner with a limp. Comes a base hit and you'll think he just got back from Lourdes.

I repented at 28 and turned to Jesus.

The most important thing you do in your life is to die.

Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life.