The minute you feel you have given a faultless performance is the time to get out.

I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.

In what I think is the most serious problem the world faces, which is the population explosion, we will come I think to a time when measures that are not even dreamt of now will become necessary.

A war put off is not a war avoided.

Doing a picture with Willie Wyler is like getting the works at a Turkish bath. You damn near drown, but you come out smelling like a rose.

The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in ... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.