Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.

I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.

After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.

But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.