There was a period when I just wanted to make what I wanted to make and I didn't care what lie I had to tell.

There is one thing I know about creative conflict: once my argument is exhausted, I am not going to be unhappy whether it moves in my direction or away.

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

When it's over for a woman, it's over. You're not getting an appeal.

I'm very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I'm positively against it. I don't have the right to any other view. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.

I was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I'd started work in animation I'd have had to take a cut in salary, so I didn't.

A lot of people in the middle of their lives have a secret yearning for more romance.