July 27 Birthdays

The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.

I loved Gilda when I was 6 or 7, because I had hair like Roseanne Rosannadanna.

I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to have a range of cool boyfriends. I wanted to travel around and date these interesting men. Then it just happened. You fall in love.

My billing has always been, 'and', or 'with', or 'including.' That's all right, let the stars take the blame.

As an action director, I always try to bring something fresh and new.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

Too afraid of plagiarising someone, so I stopped reading fiction in 1981.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it. Joseph Mitchell

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

He tricked me into marrying him. He told me he was pregnant.