The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts.
On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.
Make subtlety obvious.
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
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, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.
One's too many and a hundred's not enough.
I can get incredibly erotic about blotting paper.
The United States is the laughingstock of the world.
I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.
Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration.