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

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

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

I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

I don't think any word can explain a man's life.