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.

Having one perfect thing was less important than having a range of ideas, realizing they were all taking you in a certain direction.

Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.

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.

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

The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.

Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.