I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

My house is not James Bondish at all. Sorry.

I always wanted to design for films.

Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.

One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.

I'm an incurable romantic, and 'Casablanca''s one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.

My mother and father were interested in the arts.

It was not a noisy wind but the kind that suggests something very big and thin fresh from the horror of Infinite Space.

So many people sabotagetheir own chances for happiness—don’t be one of them.

I used to go play football matches in the morning, and I'd go straight from me football game to a dance competition.

My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it.

Happy girls are the prettiest girls.

Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!

I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.

I just didn't have no edge for baseball. Once special coach Tony Oliva and former Twins coach Al Newman told me what happened, I couldn't function.