George Cukor

The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.

You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.

I don't think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak a line or get a laugh, but it has to be in them.

I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

In a small spacecraft, it was hard for the other two guys to sleep when the on-duty man was talking to Mission Control regularly.