I don't know if I'm going to do any more acting. It's a great job, you know? Make a movie? Why not?
“Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.”
“I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of.”