I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

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

My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.