I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.

I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.

Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money and you become them.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.