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.

Although I had a few jobs that I didn't like, or quit, or got fired from, I really loved New York from the moment I got here and I never stopped.

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

My education was an education by movies.

Style lasts forever and taste doesn't.

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

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