Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

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

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere.

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.

When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.