I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.