Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.

Well, it has to do with very deep things, because it might be that imagining yourself as a girl is a diminishment. But it is something that when I made "The Devil Wears Prada" it was the first time in my life, 30 years of making movies, that a man came up and said I know how you felt. I know how you felt. I have a job like that. People understand.

Anyone who wants to achieve something, needs a lot of work.

There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking.

It is interesting how fashion filters down and we discover in the "Devil Wears Prada" that we're all prey to trends, even if we think we are not.

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.