Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.

When in doubt, make a western.

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

If you are doing whatever a shepherd is ordering you to do, then you are a real sheep, a poor submissive being!

No woman that I know is capable of leaving her child down for thirty seconds. She can't walk away without making sure that everything is absolutely as secure and safe for her child as can be.

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

My friends, look to Christ, and not to yourselves. That is what is the matter with a great many sinners; instead of looking to Christ, they are looking at the bite of sin.

No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.

The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things

I worked with Roger Moore on three episodes of The Saint. He is a lovely man, a good director, and was my favourite actor to work with.

Glory is the child of peril.