It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart. 骗得过眼睛愚不了心 My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing. 我的弱点...真希望我能给出答案，如果你问我的优点估计我也是这反应，也许两者皆同吧 I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience. 我认为演员不该期冀得到角色，因为失望的打击太大.你得把一切都看成是机会，比如一次试镜就是你得到观众欣赏的好机会 I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools. 我是演员不是明星，明星们都住在好莱坞，有着心形的游泳池
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director. 故事片的上帝是导演，纪录片的导演是上帝 Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. 剧情片就是被删掉无聊部分的现实生活 The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. 电影的长度应该符合人体膀胱的承受时限 Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints. 金发美人是扮演受害者的最佳选择，她们就像现出血脚印的初雪一样 Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. 相信你的直觉，这样就算错了也是自己的，不能怨其他人
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.观众是不可能错的，也许会有一个白痴观众，但是一千个白痴坐在黑暗中看电影--他们就都是顶级影评家 You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning. 你必须有梦想，这样早晨起床才有动力 Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon. 快乐的定义就是与Jack Lemmon一起工作 Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique. 电影是被戏剧化的现实，导演的工作是还原它的真实性...观众不应该注意到拍摄技术 I like making films about characters I`d like to have dinner with. 我喜欢创造那些我愿与之共进晚餐的角色 When the great actor says the line, you can put scissors precisely at the point A and it`s wonderful. When the star says the line, you can hold for four frames longer because something else happens. 当一个好演员念出台词，你可以精确地喊停拍出美妙的片段. 当一个明星念台词时，你会多拍出四帧因为感觉不大对劲
Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too. 生活是非常非常复杂的，电影也应当如此 The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to. 我对荒诞的本质非常着迷 It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else. 我不愿意谈论事物和它们的意义，少知道这些意义其实更好. 因为它是一件非常私人化的东西，而且大家对意义的理解都各有千秋
