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

At 26, I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.

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.