There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

Women are complicated and messy and we are certainly not perfect, but we are funny and challenging and kind, and I wouldn't change a thing

The nearest one came to a tumble dryer was if the laundry basket was dropped on the way to the washing-line and then the whole lot went tumbling down the drive.

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.

Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage.

It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.

I never knew Kurt to be suicidal. I just knew that he was going through a really tough time.

Words have a life; without response they die.

It is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The contrary inference is the fair one.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.