The pickings are pretty slim when you have to play the part of a housewife who doesn't go out of her apartment because she's afraid she's going to get mugged, or a woman who turns into her brother, who is a murderer.

I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully give so many of the audience a chance to see themselves on the screen.

Never trust a man when he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

You have to surrender to the energy above and below.

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.

Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who had created a system of linked dictatorships to control the creative people. We were supposed to be the children; mad, tempestuous, brilliant, talented, not terribly smart children.

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.