“He agreed with me. What I didn’t tell him was that I just couldn’t go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines. I’d had enough of the mumbo-jumbo. I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977) to me.”

Alec Guinness On George Lucas

“Nothing is too shocking for me. When you tell the story of a man who loses his head, you have to show the head being cut off. Otherwise it's just a dirty joke without a punch line.”
Roman Polanski

“Lubitsch's method of direction was perfect for me. He would act out the whole scene — and then he'd say, 'Now let's see how you'd do it.'”
Jack Benny

“No comic can be great in films without two things — a great story which gives you a character to play, and a great director.”
Jack Benny

“Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.”
Victoria Abril