Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

There is something more important than logic: imagination

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened; they revolt me. That round white thing without any holes, and when you break it, inside there’s that yellow thing, round, without any holes… Brrr! Have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it.