William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.

I'm perpetual tourist, and that's the best way to travel. Nobody gets used to you, you make new friends without having to hear anyone's everyday problems, and you jet back still feeling like a know-it-all.

Aren't maids the ultimate art critics?

It was a mystery to me. To that awful black-and-white farm, with that aunt who was dressed badly, with smelly farm animals around when she could live with winged monkeys and magic shoes and gay lions. I didn't get it.

William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.

Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?

I understand why people want to look up their friends - usually they want to see what people they've wanted to have sex with look like.