Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.

Taste has nothing to do with style.

After the war, photography came alive, in part because everybody started to use the 35mm camera, and worked on the street instead of in a studio, and that made an enormous difference in not only how photographs looked, but what they were about.

The greatest style is when you can't see the style though you walk away knowing it was there. It's like a perfume - there but not there.

In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.

Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.

Everybody thought New York was this hard, cruel place, and I found it to be an extraordinarily wonderful place filled with the most interesting people.