I just made pictures I would've liked to see. - Billy Wilder

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, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.