I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette…

The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

— Michael Curtiz

If you start watching the oldies, you're in trouble. I feel ancient if "Grand Hotel" or "The Bride Wore Red" comes on. I have…

— Joan Crawford

I did my first nude scene in Mildred Pierce, and that was absolutely terrifying, but it was for an important part of the film…

— Evan Rachel Wood

The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy…

— Manny Farber

I guess being French, I love Hollywood. I love Hollywood movies. Joseph Mankiewicz's 'All About Eve.' 'Mildred Pierce.'

— Christian Louboutin

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

— Loni Anderson

I love the 'Mildred Pierce' miniseries.

— Ben Bass

I like books steeped in the quotidian - details about work and place. You can learn how to run a chicken-and-waffle restaurant by reading…

— Laura Lippman

I'm always interested in what classic crime writers got into when they stepped away from the genre stuff they were known for. That's why…

— Todd Haynes

Films like 'The Godfather,' 'Chinatown' and 'The Exorcist' brought a realism and currency and understatement to their genres that we wanted for 'Mildred Pierce.'

— Todd Haynes

Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.

— Kate Winslet

There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now.

— Peter Jackson

I like the black and white movies on AMC.

— Slick Rick

I am more of an old black and white movies fan.

— Peter Tork

I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.

— Noah Baumbach