The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

I have an unfortunate personality.

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

In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.