Bikes and planes aren’t about going fast or having fun; they’re toys, but serious ones.

The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves the film.

What I think is important for a young person is to figure out how to be useful and not be so concentrated on themselves, but to see what they can do to make the overall collaboration with all the other people involved in a movie work better.

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.

There's a real simple analogy. You have to perceive it from the ground up. You have to lay a firm foundation, then every step becomes part of a logical process.

Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

There's no independent satisfaction without the success of the film itself. The feel that you have done the best you can to support the film.