Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?

The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.

The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.

Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.

We all take a different path to the same place. Why we took the path we did will always be a mystery.

Workers can offer guidance for improving the work.

I had a friend whose family had dinner together every day. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. It just seemed so amazing to me.

Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

The cancer of time is eating us away

I just think that movies are really fake; they should be fake.

I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.