I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.

Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.

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

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

If there's anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

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.

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone elses.

France is the only country where the money falls apart and you cant tear the toilet paper.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cant tear the toilet paper.

Hindsight is always twenty twenty.

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.

I hate wasting people's time.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

I want to spend more time with those kids. I want to dedicate my time to train those kids and teach them what it takes, what they need to do to get to this level.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.