A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

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

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out

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.