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.

Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.

There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.

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

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.