What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

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.

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

Hello, Lady Witch, " he said, breaking into a brazen grin. "Sorry to see you're laid up again.""Occupational hazard, " Lily mumbled...

Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.

Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.

The cheerful loser is the winner.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.

In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

Fit is everything. I don't care what your body type is like: If you're not wearing clothes that fit you, you can't have style.

He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.