I think a lot of ["Cosmopolitans"] is marked by [Jerome David] Salinger. Salinger wouldn't allow his works to be adapted for film after his experience with "Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut," and I think that's great for us because then we have to do our own Salinger stories.

I think it's really good and helpful to have the people you most admire in some other discipline than what you work in. It's too intimidating and derivative to be just totally gobsmacked by someone doing exactly the same thing as you are.

I call the '70s the "golden age of television"; in the early '70s there were sensationally good shows.

I think it's helpful to aspire to make films if you feel that other people are not doing what you want to do.

I would say on the other side of the equation that there were really some massive sales and massive enthusiasm for some films that were given big releases. And I'm not really sure that happens in quite the same way, small films getting big releases. Maybe it still does, I don't know.

I can talk about Jane Austen until the cows come home.

I think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because of her classicism.