We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

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.

Education gives you lights to see, wings to fly, and music to sing.

Freedom and dignity for everyone in the world, is the hardest thing to achieve, but we must not give up.

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.

Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.

It's very hard to be good. It is self-destructive thinking to think that there is too much good.

I like femininity, not of the devout, but of the self-assured, cool and sophisticated kind.

Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.

I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.