The director's job is full of all sorts of annoyances and details - like how many cars are on the street. Ugh. I don't want it. I like my gig. And I feel that for the next 30 years or so I can keep learning more about it.

If you accept limitations then, yeah, you'll be limited. If you don't accept limitations then the horizon is pretty vast.

I don't have a waist: I'm a breadbox on top of legs.

I'm not glamorous, I don't have a look, I don't know anything about opera, I have no Italian, and I'm too old.

You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.

Everyone's life is a train wreck. Your life happens to be a high-class train wreck.

I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.