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.

Style is a way of talking about yourself.

Sometimes other people have better ideas.

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

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.

Taste has nothing to do with style.

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