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 love watching the romantic comedies of the late '50s and early '60s. I used to have a rule that if Tony Randall's in it, it can't be bad.

I'm for people clinging. I'm pro-clinging.

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.

Mary McCarthy and that Mr. Intellectual kind of guy ... Dwight McDonald? And they were really mean about [Jerome David] Salinger, and oh they were going to destroy him, and just look how thoroughly they destroyed him! No one reads Salinger anymore!

For me, the present is a golden era. That's the greatest golden era. Right now. I just like pining for lost times.

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'