[on being asked how he managed to get the script to Morgan! (1966) green-lighted for production] Well, I was the head of the distribution company, so it really wasn't that difficult.
[on Fred Astaire] Astaire is the motherless man-about-town, all sophistication, quite debonair, yet with a lope in his walk rather than a swagger, for - despite his receding hair - he is essentially boyish, youthful, innocent.
[on actress Joan Greenwood] She speaks her lines as though suspecting in them some hidden menace that she can't quite identify.