A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.

It’s not a lie. It’s a gift for fiction.

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.