A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way or ever claim that it's the best one, except maybe for himself. And don't imagine that this raggle-taggle gypsy is claiming to be free. It's just that some of the necessities to which I am a slave are different from yours.

[I have a] fondness for telling stories, like the Arab storytellers on the marketplace. ... I will never grow tired of [telling] stories [and] I make the mistake of thinking that everyone has the same enthusiasm!

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

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

I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.

I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.