Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.

One famous movie executive who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X,' I said, 'I thought you were a producer not an exhibitor'.

One has to handle these negative experiences alone.You can't get help from your friends or family.You're finally alone with it, and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.

Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.

I was in Vienna in August 1968 for a meeting of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, of which I was co-founder, and we wanted a 20th country to join. They asked for a volunteer to go to Prague to get Czechoslovakia to do it, and my hand always goes up first.

Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.

If you hear someone scream, you shouldn't close the drapes. You should help. You've got to try.