If they're going to like anything of mine, they'll like The General.

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!

In 1928, I made the worst mistake of my career. Against my better judgment I let Joe Schenck talk me into giving up my own studio to make pictures at the boomi…

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…

'I've changed music four or five times. What have you done of any importance other than be white?'

His formidable originality within the picture-book convention may not have been altogether apparent to Keeping himself, which is both a strength and a weakness…

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.