Decline and Fall was a very depressing Evelyn Waugh novel, I think it was his first. I didn't get it at all, and then I got to love Waugh. And I think that maybe "Cosmopolitans" has a bit of an… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
[ Lady Susan novel by Jane Austen is] extremely difficult to adapt. I worked on it for years, for, like, ten years, before I started showing it to people. This was my back-burner project. — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I think it's really good and helpful to have the people you most admire in some other discipline than what you work in. It's… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
For me, the present is a golden era. That's the greatest golden era. Right now. I just like pining for lost times. — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I decided the moment I graduated from college that I would never wear blue jeans again. And I have never worn blue jeans again. — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because of her… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I find it really disturbing to be watching a lot of the medium that I'm trying to work in. I prefer to be doing… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I think a lot of ["Cosmopolitans"] is marked by [Jerome David] Salinger. Salinger wouldn't allow his works to be adapted for film after his… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I explained to Amazon that I don't like outlining or projecting what something's going to be. I like to allow a story to arise… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I would say on the other side of the equation that there were really some massive sales and massive enthusiasm for some films that… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
It becomes a lot better for the actors when we're 'shooting, shooting, shooting,' instead of waiting around in a trailer for something to happen. — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
Find someone hypersocial and crazy and try not to follow them to their doom, but to make friends with their nicer friends. — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I've had no money, absolutely, from my family. They paid for a good education - or schools that purported to be a good education… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
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