I think it's helpful to aspire to make films if you feel that other people are not doing what you want to do.

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

The Cha-Cha is no more ridiculous than life itself.

I decided the moment I graduated from college that I would never wear blue jeans again. And I have never worn blue jeans again.

For me, the present is a golden era. That's the greatest golden era. Right now. I just like pining for lost times.

We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure.

[Jerome David] Salinger was really taken to the cleaners by nasty critics in his day. I think Joan Didion was one of the people who attacked him in a very unfair way.

I originally wanted to be F. Scott Fitzgerald, but failed.

I find it really disturbing to be watching a lot of the medium that I'm trying to work in. I prefer to be doing things that are farther away.

I love watching the romantic comedies of the late '50s and early '60s. I used to have a rule that if Tony Randall's in it, it can't be bad.

I call the '70s the "golden age of television"; in the early '70s there were sensationally good shows.

If all of us make peace as a purpose of our life, how could there be war?

If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.

She hits me and she beats me and she drinks. My mom is an alcoholic.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

we are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling.

This city runs fast, no one has time to sit with themselves, No time to look into our pain or see the same despair in everyone else

I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.

God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.

Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.