Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.

Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one.

We learn to walk when we’re babies and never forget unless we’re drunk.

Are there any leading men in your life?""Several, but they're all fictional.

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

If it were up to me, I would put in jail every sandal-wearing, scruffy-bearded weirdo who burns the American flag. But I am not king.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.

As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

My father is so in love with making movies, and he'sso charismatic about it, that it's hard to be around him withoutwanting to make movies.

I wanted them to love the story so they would love me.

I am unable to rule anything out.