Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

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