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"Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?"
"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints."
"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."
"Ideas come from everything"
"I enjoy playing the audience like a piano."
"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."
"There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever."
"I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened; they revolt me. That round white thing without any holes, and when you break it, inside there’s that yellow thing, round, without any holes… Brrr! Have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it."
"Never judge a country by its politicians."
"One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life."
"Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms."
"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."
"Never turn your back on a friend."
"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake."
"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."
"I don't understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. A musician has to do it, a composer. He puts a lot of dots down and beautiful music comes out. And I think that students should be taught to visualize. That's the one thing missing in all this. The one thing that the student has got to do is to learn that there is a rectangle up there - a white rectangle in a theater - and it has to be filled."
"Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen."
"In a good marriage each is the others better half."
"Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned."
"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. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like."