An agent is a guy who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what he makes.

It’s easy to get caught up in where the world is going and lose sight of the direction we were headed.

Look, this is helping me out quite a bit, but could you just get to the punishment part? We're at the end of World War Two in history, and I can't wait to find out who wins.

Somebody give me a banana. I'm playing like a monkey, so I might as well eat like one.

I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it.

I see you that have a little swimming mouse

There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

Roses bloom, and then they wither; Cheeks are bright, then fade and die; Shapes of light are wafted hither, Then, like visions, hurry by.

When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.

Father, perfect my trust;Let my spirit feel in death,That her feet are firmly setOn the rock of a living faith!

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.