Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

I got a job at Metro and went in to see Louis Mayer, who told me he wanted me to be a producer. I said I wanted to write and direct. He said, "No, you have to produce first, you have to crawl before you can walk." Which is as good a definition of producing as I ever heard.

Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.