“The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.”

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.

I got scars from every film I’ve done, every TV show.

The kind of roles which you get, people identify with your roles, and it then leads to the kind of brands you get.

All my films are all my children.

No one can guarantee success of a film.

I used to enjoy the spotlight. If I had a day off from filming, I didn’t know what to do.

I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before ‘Queen,’ but now things have changed a lot.

I would like to make a film to tell children “it’s good to be alive”.

I want to make films that cater to the world audiences.