All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the world on the phone, God, she knows what to do all the time, God, she wears clothes well.

Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.