Quotes

I do not welcome advice from actors, they are here to act.

There were giants in the industry. Now it is an era of midgets and conglomerates.

[Giving direction to a group of children in Exodus (1960)] Cry, you little monsters!

Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed 14 takes to get each one of them right.

Marilyn Monroe? A vacuum with nipples.

[after the disastrous failure of Skidoo (1968))] I don't think many people adore it. Except my wife, who adores all my pictures, because that's what you get married for.