I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.

Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.

Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.

The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children.

And," Price adds, smiling, "if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d' on fire. So you know, warn him.