People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

Between 18 and 19 years old [in the 1950s] I came to Paris. I studied art. And that experience really did change my life. I was living hand to mouth. I walked everywhere. I thought, this city is incredible but you really have to experience it by walking it.

I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying.

There's a lot of hyperventilation that takes off before the [Sundance Film] Festival, a lot of buzz. Every year we hear, this is going to be the new this, this is going to be the new that, and it never is. The buzz just doesn't mean anything. I'm glad it doesn't. Because I think the festival shows that what succeeds is content.

San Franciscans are very proud of their city, and they should be. It’s the most beautiful place in the world.

I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.