The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.