Failure's a natural part of life.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

Reviews are destructive by their very nature.

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.

Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house by themselves.

In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it. And it's pretty irritating to get a movie on. So to complicate it by having more irritation as a director, I don't really need it. And because I direct a great deal still, but in the theater, I kind of get that anyway. Which is not at all to say I would never do it again, or it would never happen again.