It’s not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who’s Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor Type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who’s Mary Astor?

I don’t think Garbo with her clothes off, panting in a brass bed, would have been more sexy than she was.

I admire nudity and I like sex, and so did a lot of people in the Thirties. But, to me, overexposure blunts the fun…Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife...

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.