"Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite."

"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."

"Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music."

"In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage."

"I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California."

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

"It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united."

"I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America."