Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.

I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.

Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.

I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.

As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.

I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.

I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.

I can hardly remember my bleak life before you.

Betrayal dressed in love and trimmed with the facade of good intentions is the most barbaric of all betrayals.

The World we all share is given to us in trust. Every choice we make regarding the earth, air, and water around us should be made with the objective of preserving it for all generations to come.

I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it's getting.

The most prominent place in hell is reserved for those who are neutral on the great issues of life.

I can get money with my eyes closed

It takes a lot of energy to manipulate someone and keep them on a string.

Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.

To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must not impose an ending upon them.

They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.