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

Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts.

In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.