The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.

I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not always like that.

Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.

The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.