The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.

Making a movie is casting a spell.

A lavish colored evocation of Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the 1920's film star.

This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July.

If you are a member of the media, you belong to the public. You've made that Faustian bargain with your public. Take me – all of me – I'm yours.

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.