My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.

My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.

People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.

I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was 4 years old.