The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.

I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical. I've got nobody floating in my swimming pool.