I am a very pragmatic person.

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

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

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

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

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.