I prefer the magic to reality, and have since I was 5 years old. Hopefully, I can continue to make films and constantly escape into them.

A man that has never lied to a woman has no respect for her feelings.

My success has allowed me to strike out with a higher class of women.

I could turn on my radio in the morning when I was getting dressed for school and hear Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman and think this is the music. Now that music is art. Ellington is art. At that time it was just what you heard on the radio. Cole Porter was just a guy who wrote pretty songs and Billie Holliday would sing them.

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

People are always talking about the dumbing down of the country.