“The best films are best because of nobody but the director.”
Roman Polanski

“Mike Nichols is the greatest director ever in films. Why? Because he never had a failure.”
Joseph Edward Levine On Mike Nichols

“Tales of my toughness are exaggerated. I never killed an actor.”
John Huston

“I'm overpaid, over-stimulated, over-hyped, over-age, but I am the only person in our business who'll admit it.”
Joel Schumacher

“[Hollywood] is filled with people who make adventure pictures and who have never left this place... religious pictures and they haven't been in a church or synagogue for years... pictures about love and they have never been in love — ever.”
Richard Brooks