But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.

Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

I know people who say Hollywood broke her heart, and all that, but I dont believe it. She was very observant and tough minded and appealing, but she adored and trusted the wrong people. She was very courageous-you know the book Twelve Against the Gods? Marilyn was like that, she had to challenge the gods at every turn.