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..

Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books..

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..

Taste has nothing to do with style..

Style lasts forever and taste doesn't..

Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor..

Although I had a few jobs that I didn't like, or quit, or got fired from, I really loved New York from the moment I got here and I never stopped..

I was dyslexic as a child and it took me years to get passed that. I read a lot but it was hard and that didn't go away until my early-to-mid-twentie….

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