In timing a film, we used to assume that sneaks move slowly. This was great for animators-thirty-six to forty-eight drawings for a single step-but it was sheer hell for the pace of the picture. So the rapid tiptoe was invented.

As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace

Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying.

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.