I like the fog that creeps over the whole city every night about five, and the warm protective feeling it gives...and lights of San Francisco at night, the fog horn, the bay at dusk and the little flower stands where spring flowers appear before anywhere else in the country...But, most of all, I like the view of the ocean from the Cliff House.

There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.

But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined

That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting.

And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films

Trying to build the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God is like trying to make a wheel without a hub.

if we don't stand for something, you may be sure we will fall for anything.