In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.

There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.

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

I discovered early in my movie work that a movies never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.

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.

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