About CinemaScope: "It's only good for funerals and snakes."
"Each picture has some sort of rhythym which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship."
"There was a time when all I looked for was a good story, but nowadays everything has to look like the size of Mount Rushmore, and the actors in close- up look as though they belong there."
"I do not like producers."