Otto Preminger

What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.

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

I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.