But I went down to Venezuela and spend a few weeks going through jungles. It's fantastic looking.

That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.

It's the story that counts.

The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.

I learn new things all the time.

Color can do anything that black-and-white can.

I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.

I made three films with Douglas, two with Charles Boyer.

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.

It's always the story that interests me.

If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience.

In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.

Designing Woman was written for the screen.

No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.

I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.

I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.

American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.

We shot that in all the real places where Van Gogh worked.

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream.

I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

But I went down to Venezuela and spend a few weeks going through jungles. It's fantastic looking.

Obviously, the ultimate dream is to be married for life.

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.

If you are not a feminist in love, you fail to recognise someone who does not love you. Feminism makes love easier. Otherwise, there is the danger of feeling romantically drawn to someone who does not see you as an equal.

Music truly is the universal language.

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.

The nearest one came to a tumble dryer was if the laundry basket was dropped on the way to the washing-line and then the whole lot went tumbling down the drive.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master; the rest were made by students. I had liked the ones by Raphael. This was a big jab for my self-confidence in my ability to appreciate art.

Each time I reach a goal or read a great review, I am beyond pleased.

It is probable that Facebook boasts the broadest, deepest, and most comprehensive dataset of human information, interests, and activity ever collected.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

I won't intervene in Knesset decisions.

No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

Even by the standards expected of Marine grunts their bravery was exceptional.

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.

I've always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way.

Current ethos in Silicon Valley is that if you build a website that people keep coming back to and is changing the lives of millions, you can eventually make money.

The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.