I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

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

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

Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.

A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way or ever claim that it's the best one, except maybe for himself. And don't imagine that this raggle-taggle gypsy is claiming to be free. It's just that some of the necessities to which I am a slave are different from yours.

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.

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.