Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.

Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

Last night I fled until I came To streets where leaking casements dripped Stale lamplight from the corpse of flame; A nervous window bled.

As long as I'm needed. I'll be ready to serve. I look forward with optimism. We need the Jews here. Move to Israel! Move to Israel!

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery.

A movie should entertain you in a way that will also open your mind. I think movies are tools to enrich your experience.

Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter''s Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind.

Nothing brings more money to the Treasury of the United States, than investment in education of the American people.

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

[He] saw communism for the sham that it was--a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion.

Every good servant does not all commands.