When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.
They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.
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 remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head.
With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.
To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together. . . humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.