When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away with your embezzlements and your lies and your murders, but you can never get away with failing.

I don't understand all about New York society. It's only when they are in trouble that I'm really interested.

My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.

I always love going back to Los Angeles, because it was my home for 24 years, and I have many friends there.

Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.

I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.

When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.