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.

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 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.

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.

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

I should have had the pickle.