that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.

Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

A flame burns brightest just before it goes out.