My parents stayed together for forty years. But that was out of spite.

He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. Yes. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.

I don't know what the hell I'm doing here. I'm 237 years old, I should be collecting social security.

I don't own a computer. I've never seen anything online at all - nothing. I don't own a word processor. I have none of that stuff. It's not an act of rebellion. I'm just not a gadget person.

Every time you make a movie it's a new and different experience. You learn very little from the past. So, I'm a little bit better than I was when I first started.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special.