We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.

When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.

Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat.

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.