A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture

Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.

Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.

There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.

The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.

Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.