Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.

By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.

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.

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.