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.

You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as "looking like an unmade bed." He was right!

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

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.