Otto Preminger quotes:

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

Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.

I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a doctor, who said hair was like grass: if you mow it, then it grows back stronger. So I went to Brittany, where nobody knew me, and I shaved my head. When it grew back - only the fringes!

Cry you little monsters!

I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.

Every minute of life I take a risk; it's part of the enjoyment.