I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

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

Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.

I have an unfortunate personality.

I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.