As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.

Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I say it - God.

The fact is that movie stars are as insecure as the rest of us - if not more so. Many live in a luxurious bubble in which their best friends are their trainer, their hairdresser, their publicist, and their Kabbalah instructor.

There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's missing.

I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut.

My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.

To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.