You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.

I should have had the pickle.

The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.

You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

After I saw a couple of pictures put out by my fellow comedy-directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor of the message, I wrote Sullivan's Travels to satisfy an urge to tell them that they were getting a little too deep-dish, to leave the preaching to the preachers.