Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.

Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.