I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities.

To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed.

Dore Schary was then head of the studio and he wanted to change my name.

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.

The sweet smell of success is no perfume for a woman. Say it's old-fashioned, say it's corny, but, as far as I can see, a girl who wears a 'business scent' is not attractive. A woman who flaunts her career as if it was a new hat is not beautiful.

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.