Hollywood, we decided, was a nice place to die, but we wouldn't want to live there.

To restore a sense of reality, I think Walt Disney should have a Hardluckland.

Son of Lady Chatterley's Lover had obvious commercial advantages (as a title for this book), but it impugned the marital status of my parents, something that enough critics were already doing.

As I was saying before I was interrupted ... I believe the last thing I said was 'There must be a better way to make a living than this.' Well, I've looked - and there isn't.

... Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca.

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.