There were times, when I drove along the Sunset Strip and looked at
those buildings or when I watched the fashionable film colony arriving
at some première ... that I fully expected God in his wrath to obliterate
the whole shebang. [on Hollywood]
A dreary industrial town controlled by hoodlums of enormous wealth,
the ethical sense of a pack of jackals, and taste so degraded that it
befouled everything it touched. [on Hollywood]
Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.
The movie business is a gigantic rat fuck.
Merchandising reached it s apogee in the Lux advertisement which portrayed two articles of lingerie discussing their wearers' effluvia, for all the world like rival stamp collectors.
A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.
I don't know much about medicine, but I know what I like.
[on Vincente Minnelli]: There is a saying in Hollywood that when Vincente Minnelli is working on a picture, you had better hide the women and children in the cellar and stay in bed with your hat on.