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I think the hardest thing about writing is writing.
[Interview clip in the In Memoriam section of the 85th Academy Awards ceremony, Feb. 24, 2013]

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

Getting older means you don't have to shave your legs anymore.

Take notes. Everything is copy.

I actually believe in denial.

Believe me, if I looked good, it's not an accident.

In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies.

I was always proud of being tough-minded, and I think I still am, but in my old age I've got a little softer in the head, and that's all right.

Whatever it is, I'm not up for it." "Oh, Missee Felman, I feel so bad for ju,

Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.

If your husband is cheating on you with a carhop, get Meryl Streep to play you. You'll feel much better.

I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.

I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.

That's what a marriage is...Pieces break off, and you glue them back on.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

I feel really bad for people who aren't insane over food.

In a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover.

I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

Everyone loves fried chicken, Don't ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good fried chicken.

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted
most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: you are.

The best divorce is the kind where there are no children. That was my first divorce. You walk out the door and you never look back.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

I just bring a black turtleneck sweater everywhere - it's the greatest purchase of my life. Period.

Having been married so many times, I know that one of the few things I am an expert in is falling in love.

I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.

The empty nest is underrated.

SALLY Harry, I can't do this anymore. I am not your consolation prize. Goodbye.

Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

My closet is full of sad little scripts that didn't get made that have sad endings. It's very hard to get a movie made that has a sad ending.

We all look good for our age. Except for our necks.

We know in one part of our brains that we are all going to die, but on some level we don't quite believe it.

Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.

Checked out the mirror to see if I looked older, or sadder, or wiser. I didn't; I just looked tired.

Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.

I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.

Everybody I know who goes out and plays a little softball, they break their leg.

Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it.

Your hair doesn't need to be washed every day any more than your black pants have to be dry-cleaned every time you wear them.

I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.

What did she look like?" "Thin. Pretty. Big tits. Your basic nightmare." We

It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.

On some level, my life has been wasted on me. After all, if I can't remember it, who can?

Here's the thing about dessert--you want it to last. You want to savor it.

Directing movies is the best job there is, that's all. I can hardly say a word after that. It's just a great job.

You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion.

Washington is a city of important men and the women they married before they grew up.

Everything is copy.

Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.

I had no jealousy of work, no jealousy of money. I was just jealous of women who took advantage of men, because I didn't know how to do it.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.