People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying, bankrupt, and crime-ridden. But fun.

I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather than things that surprise you.

I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.

Life is all about seating and lighting.

We really care about photography at Vanity Fair.

You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.