The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.

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.

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

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

I am a very pragmatic person.

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.

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.