I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.

They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no one understands you.

Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.

In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere, but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them in Shakespeare ... I am not concerned with who wrote the works of Shakespeare ... but I can hardly think it was the Stratford boy. Whoever wrote them had an aristocratic attitude.

As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.