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

I have an unfortunate personality.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.

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.

[The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the psychological and economic motivations, the influences of the period in which they lived.