“Ideas come from everything.”

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.

I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.

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.

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can’t tell you whether someone will fit into a company’s culture.

Money and art are far apart.

The art of missing you, crafted to perfection. – artisan.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.

All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.

The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.

Timing is an art.