Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.

I was dyslexic as a child and it took me years to get passed that. I read a lot but it was hard and that didn't go away until my early-to-mid-twenties. So really what I was looking at were the photographs and the illustrations in magazines.

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

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.

The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.

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.