“I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.”

Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.

Self-plagiarism is style.

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.

I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.

There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

Everything’s perverted in a different way.

I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

If I won’t be myself, who will?

Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.

Avoid negativity for positivity.

Avoid people who drain your positivity and dim your light.

A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do.

The avoidance of struggle is the avoidance of experience.

Don’t use hustling as an avoidance mechanism to dismiss your emotions.

A little weirdness is enough to enjoy life & a little ignorance to avoid the problems.

Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.