Whit Stillman

[ Lady Susan novel by Jane Austen is] extremely difficult to adapt. I worked on it for years, for, like, ten years,…

— Whit Stillman

[Jerome David] Salinger was really taken to the cleaners by nasty critics in his day. I think Joan Didion was one of…

— Whit Stillman

I love watching the romantic comedies of the late '50s and early '60s. I used to have a rule that if Tony…

— Whit Stillman

We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure.

— Whit Stillman

I call the '70s the "golden age of television"; in the early '70s there were sensationally good shows.

— Whit Stillman

I'm for people clinging. I'm pro-clinging.

— Whit Stillman

In my father's time - he was in college during many transitions in the late 1930s - they had great institutional loyalties...…

— Whit Stillman

Sometimes you don't realize how dependent you are on just a few people, and if they disappear, suddenly you can be thrown…

— Whit Stillman

That's one of the things I find really bad, is when people not only do injuries to others, but then lie about…

— Whit Stillman

One of the problems of a director on the set is that we become overwhelmed by all the factors and threads of…

— Whit Stillman

I think it's helpful to aspire to make films if you feel that other people are not doing what you want to…

— Whit Stillman

I can talk about Jane Austen until the cows come home.

— Whit Stillman

The creation of a film starts with an idea, a notion of a time period or characters, and you get really excited…

— Whit Stillman

I originally wanted to be F. Scott Fitzgerald, but failed.

— Whit Stillman

You can't go by what the governments say or do. It's not the governments. It's on the street where there's more hatred…

— Whit Stillman