"My taste has to be the taste of the script, whether it's a log cabin or whether it's an elegant townhouse."
"I was in charge of installing television transmitters on top of the Empire State Building, which is a fascinating place in which to work. My office was on the eighty-fifth floor - that's the highest office in the world, but it didn't affect my salary at all. I was putting the antennae on the very tip top, which was nothing but a flat sheet of stainless steel when we first went up there, which you entered by means of a trap door. The trick was not to get blown off."