All my life I've felt like somebody's wife, or somebody's mother or somebody's daughter. Even all the time we were together, I never knew who I was. And that's why I had to go away. And in California, I think I found myself.

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.

Every since high school I've been drawn to magazines.

My education was an education by movies.

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.

Having one perfect thing was less important than having a range of ideas, realizing they were all taking you in a certain direction.

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