I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.

You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.

[In relationships with a directors] I want to be able to give and take, and I can't name what it is: respect, energy, investment in the task, focus, humor, intelligence, but I always feel responsible for taking the money.

That [film What's My Line] was very useful to me because it had Branch Rickey in a social situation. Every other bit of film [42] that I had was him making a speech.

[ Chadwick Boseman] is a remarkable actor, and he's a remarkable person.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

You know how a woman gets a man excited? She shows up.