So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too co….

It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play ….

I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and ….

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing..

When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa?.

He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going t….

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right..

Only in your imagination can you revise..

Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, "I've been waiting to meet you for half my life.".

There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above..

There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood..

The producers who wanted me to do it liked me and trusted me, and more than one scene was only one take, because I'd plan ahead what I thought would ….

I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everythin….

Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?.

That was one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness.….

Mr. Cooper said to me that he had an idea for a film in mind. The only thing he'd tell me was that I was going to have the tallest, darkest leading m….

My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see….

When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize hi….

I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems h….

When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'….

I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any res….