I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.

I gotta do some sad scenes. Why, I never tried to make anybody cry in my life! And I go 'round all the time dolled up in kippie clothes-wear everything but a c…

Because of the way I looked on the stage and screen, the public naturally assumed I felt hopeless and unloved in my personal life. Nothing could be farther fro…

I said, 'how am I gonna keep from flinching?' He said, 'Look away from me. When I say turn, it'll be there.' He put my head where my feet were!

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

And so I penned It down, until at last it came to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.