As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.

Film recognizes neither time nor space, only the limits of man's imagination

My affection for CinemaScope initially was my affection for the horizontal line as I learned it from having been apprenticed to an architect who was someone named Frank Lloyd Wright.

The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.

Complexity mumbles. Simplicity speaks

Beauty like hers is genius.

His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.

Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.

As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.

I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.

Some people love so hard that they can't control those emotions when they're at their deepest point.

You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death...In a word, emotion.