[ Response when asked which film directors he mostadmired :] I like the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

[ Of a Hollywood movie studio :] This is the biggest electric train [set] any boy ever had!

I started at the top and worked my way down.

[ Punch line of joke about a scorpion stinging a frogthat is carrying him across a river despite the fact that this would result in both their deaths :] I can’t help it. It’s my nature.

Ladies and gentlemen, I have a graveannouncement to make. Incredible as it mayseem, strange beings who landed in New Jersey tonight are the vanguard of an invading armyfrom Mars.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.