"That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort."

"I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream."

"Designing Woman was written for the screen."

"I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work."

"I learn new things all the time."

"Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man."

"American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why."

"Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life."

"I use colors to bring fine points of story and character."

"But surrealism is present in most of my pictures."

"I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater."

"The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride."

"If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds."

"In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine."

"West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York."

"Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department."

"I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy."

"I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it."