The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.

The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.

When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.

You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

After I saw a couple of pictures put out by my fellow comedy-directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor of the message, I wrote Sullivan's Travels to satisfy an urge to tell them that they were getting a little too deep-dish, to leave the preaching to the preachers.