Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

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.

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

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

I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as "looking like an unmade bed." He was right!

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.