“All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.”

“In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.”

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

“Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.”

“In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane”

“We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.”

“I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.”