"That piece of Hollywood shit with Billy Wilder [Buddy Buddy] is over, thank God. No outsider can imagine the stupidit…"

"Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the r…"

"I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut."

"I just made pictures I would've liked to see."

"An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation."

"A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, yo…"

"Es gibt über Marilyn Monroe mehr Bücher als über den zweiten Weltkrieg. Darin liegt eine gewisse Ähnlichkeit: es war …"

"Die Österreicher haben das Kunststück fertiggebracht, aus Beethoven einen Österreicher und aus Hitler einen Deutschen…"

"Würde ich noch einmal mit Marilyn [einen Film] drehen? Ich habe das mit meinem Hausarzt, meinem Psychiater und meinem…"

"Yeah, that story’s not finished. We have more things written already and figured out for it to finish, but somebody’s…"