I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.

Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The Romans were foreigners writing for foreigners two millenniums ago; and for people whose gods we find quaint, whose savagery we abominate, whose private habits we don't like to talk about, but whose idea of what is exquisite is, we flatter ourselves, mysteriously identical to ours.

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.