I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. With the laugh comes the tears and in developing motion pictures or television shows, you must combine all the facts of life - drama, pathos and humor.

Women are the best judges of anything we turn out. Their taste is very important. They are the theatergoers; they are the ones who drag the men in. If the women like it, to heck with the men.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. With the laugh comes the tears and in developing motion pictures or television shows, you must combine all the facts of life - drama, pathos and humor.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life.