the power of radio is not that it speaks to millions, but that it speaks intimately and privately to each one of those millions.

The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by people who do not want change, but only preservation of the status quo.

Art in America has always been regarded as a luxury.

Democracy ... is never won but always to be won.

Youth lives in an atmosphere of energy waiting to make contact.

Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage.

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises others make the decision.

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.

I really love how the andante from the "A minor Sonata" sounds on the mandolin.

We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves. (p. 221)

It's gonna be a slobberknocker!

I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.

I was doing bad movies as a day job. And it almost ruined my life for a while. But I have done 130-odd films, and only fourteen have been spooky ones. Im not spooky! I want life!