“I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.”

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.

I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.

Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.

The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don’t want it if it’s that easy.

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval.

If you can get through doing things that you hate to do, on the other side is greatness.

Racism, hate, and anger are now the academic standard.

Do not hate what you do not know, for the greater part of knowledge consists of what you do not know.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate – it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.

Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

I hate the word famous because it has no substance.