Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.

I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.

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

As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.