Whit Stillman

I think it's really good and helpful to have the people you most admire in some other discipline than what you work…

— Whit Stillman

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

I decided the moment I graduated from college that I would never wear blue jeans again. And I have never worn blue…

— Whit Stillman

I think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because…

— Whit Stillman

I find it really disturbing to be watching a lot of the medium that I'm trying to work in. I prefer to…

— Whit Stillman

I think a lot of ["Cosmopolitans"] is marked by [Jerome David] Salinger. Salinger wouldn't allow his works to be adapted for film…

— Whit Stillman

I explained to Amazon that I don't like outlining or projecting what something's going to be. I like to allow a story…

— Whit Stillman

I would say on the other side of the equation that there were really some massive sales and massive enthusiasm for some…

— Whit Stillman

It becomes a lot better for the actors when we're 'shooting, shooting, shooting,' instead of waiting around in a trailer for something…

— Whit Stillman

Find someone hypersocial and crazy and try not to follow them to their doom, but to make friends with their nicer friends.

— Whit Stillman

It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of…

— Whit Stillman

I've had no money, absolutely, from my family. They paid for a good education - or schools that purported to be a…

— Whit Stillman

For me, there's a bad year of getting started on something. You write bad stuff and it's awkward to throw it out,…

— Whit Stillman

There's some people who are just very dynamic about social life, and it can be some pretty crazy stuff, but you end…

— Whit Stillman

“Charlie Black: Fourierism was tried in the late nineteenth century… and it failed. Wasn’t Brook Farm Fourierist? It failed. Tom Townsend: That’s…

— Whit Stillman

There's a big difference between having relatives who have money and actually having it yourself. Just because you have a cousin who…

— Whit Stillman

I think crazy people are helpful, crazy people who are the catalysts who make other things happen for everyone else. It's almost…

— Whit Stillman

Decline and Fall was a very depressing Evelyn Waugh novel, I think it was his first. I didn't get it at all,…

— Whit Stillman

“Downward social mobility. We hear a lot about the great social mobility in America with the focus usually on the comparative ease…

— Whit Stillman

The Cha-Cha is no more ridiculous than life itself.

— Whit Stillman

Mary McCarthy and that Mr. Intellectual kind of guy ... Dwight McDonald? And they were really mean about [Jerome David] Salinger, and…

— Whit Stillman

So something I've felt I've learned with The Cosmopolitans shoot is using some agility and changing things quickly. That's something I found…

— Whit Stillman

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

— Whit Stillman

“Even at a young age one sometimes recognizes that there are behavior patterns that would simply be a waste of time for…

— Whit Stillman

“Characteristic of the overall difference between Boston and New York, the population at the Acropolis was far less forlorn. Its customers were…

— Whit Stillman