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.

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

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 don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.