Everything can be undone, including success.

nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent with no nerve is like the sound of one hand clapping.

True power is invisible and impeccable, like good taste. It is never clumsy or artless. Powerful people whisper, suggest, seduce, in order to coerce. They only use volume for effect. This is how you can tell a blowhard from a mogul. ... Most powerful people don't need to coerce; their mere presence is coercive.

Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.

Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.