nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent with no nerve is like the sound of one hand clapping.

My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that).

Like the color black, business mixed with anything turns to business.

nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent with no nerve is like the sound of one hand clapping.

Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.

Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.