Style lasts forever and taste doesn't..

New York was big enough and wide enough that it allowed for reasonably eccentric people like me to thrive. It was a perfect place for me..

I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies..

The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them..

Beauty doesn't have anything to do with prettiness. Beauty has to do with something else; it gets into an area where words can't go..

All my life I've felt like somebody's wife, or somebody's mother or somebody's daughter. Even all the time we were together, I never knew who I was. ….

After the war, photography came alive, in part because everybody started to use the 35mm camera, and worked on the street instead of in a studio, and….

Style tells you a lot more about the truth than substance, because it comes at the truth in an oblique way, it comes in on a slant, it doesn't tell y….

The greatest style is when you can't see the style though you walk away knowing it was there. It's like a perfume - there but not there..

In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely fin….

Having one perfect thing was less important than having a range of ideas, realizing they were all taking you in a certain direction..

Style is a way of talking about yourself..

Everybody thought New York was this hard, cruel place, and I found it to be an extraordinarily wonderful place filled with the most interesting peopl….

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake..

There was a kind of cultural life in New York that wasn't as solidified as it is now, it wasn't as money-driven. If you look at the size of the succe….

My education was an education by movies..

Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea..

Every since high school I've been drawn to magazines..

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible..

Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective..

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary c….