Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.

I’ll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

In Hollywood, no one knows anything.

True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.

One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.

No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.