Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

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

If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.

I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.