"Disney, of course, has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor, he just tears him up."

"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."

"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'"

"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."

"Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food."

"In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man."

"When kids hit the age of one, they're like miniature drunks. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh, then two minutes later they're crying. They drool."

"The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord."

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

"Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached."

"Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart."

"Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said."