Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house by themselves.

I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.

There will be people who hate everything you do. And some people will really love it. But that's not really different from the people who really hate it.

It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia.

In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.