"Peter Sellers became a monster. He just got bored with the part [Inspector Clouseau] and became angry, sullen and unprofessional. He wouldn't show up for work and he began looking for anyone and everyone to blame, never for a moment stopping to see whether or not he should blame himself for his own madness, his own craziness."

(Blake Edwards, pseudonimo di William Blake Crump, regista, sceneggiatore e produttore cinematografico; Tulsa, 26 luglio 1922 – Santa Monica, 15 dicembre 2010)