I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa?

Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?

My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.

There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.