There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.

Love is a hole in the heart.

Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.

Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.

The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.

Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then - the alley.