Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

The road is better than the inn.

I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.

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