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.

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

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

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.

I should have had the pickle.

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