Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.

In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.

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

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

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

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.