I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us.
My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

