If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.

Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent.

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

Of all the human evils, of which we have thousands of years of record and our own contemporary experiences, the most horrible evil of all is hypocrisy. It's this idea that there are those who do bad and there are those who do good, when, in fact, even the people who supposedly do good are saying they do good to mask the fact that they do evil.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.