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.

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

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.

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.