Quotes

"Bonnie and Clyde" could look like a celebration of gangster glamor only to a man with a head full of shavings.

[on It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)]: "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" is about greed and feminine hysteria, and about how people behave in a panic, which, in this picture, is always badly. Every comic convention has been turned sour. Slipping on a banana skin breaks bones, and it is the pain of their enemies that makes the characters laugh. The title is a hoax. It should be "We're Lousy, Lousy, Lousy, Lousy People".

[on Ronald Colman]: He is the only actor I can think of who could make a toothbrush look as though it were a cigarette-holder.