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

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

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

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