Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.

The greatest style is when you can't see the style though you walk away knowing it was there. It's like a perfume - there but not there.

Style lasts forever and taste doesn't.

Style tells you a lot more about the truth than substance, because it comes at the truth in an oblique way, it comes in on a slant, it doesn't tell you what it is. It's unexpected and it makes you laugh and think.

Sometimes other people have better ideas.

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.

Taste has nothing to do with style.