By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?

I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.

You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.

I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.

I've done my job and I've got the picture out there, and I'm very happy with it.

I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.