“I'm amazed that Fitzgerald's books now sell millions, ... Nobody believed in him then. It was so sad. He was about 40, but I thought of him as an old man.”
“[But his father begged him not to publish the book.] L.B. Mayer called me a traitor, ... 'I blame you for this,' he told my father, 'because you should have stopped him. We should deport him.' That was Hollywood. I often think it was like Venice under the doges.”
