As Far As The Men Who Are

People In New Orleans Really Care About Food, Care About It Passionately, Can Spend Hours Arguing Over Whether Antoine's Is Better Than Galatoire's Or The Other Way Around ... In New Orleans, There Is Basically Nothing To Do But Eat And Then Argue About It.

I Definitely Divide My Life Into Decades. Almost Every Ten Years, Something In My Work Life Has Changed. My Twenties Were My Journalistic Phase, Then There Was My Screenwriting Phase, Then I Became A Director, Then I Started Doing Some Plays.

It's Always A Shock To The People Who Run Studios When A Movie That Is For Women Is A Hit. They Have An Infinite Capacity To Be Shocked.

We Have A Game We Play When We’re Waiting For Tables In Restaurants, Where You Have To Write The Five Things That Describe Yourself On A Piece Of Paper. When I Was [in My Twenties], I Would Have Put: Ambitious, Wellesley Graduate, Daughter, Democrat, Single. Ten Years Later Not One Of Those Five Things Turned Up On My List. I Was: Journalist, Feminist, New Yorker, Divorced, Funny. Today Not One Of Those Five Things Turns Up In My List: Writer, Director, Mother, Sister, Happy.

I Recognize That Printing Pictures Of Corpses Raises All Sorts Of Problems About Taste And Titillation And Sensationalism; The Fact Is, However, That People Die. Death Happens To Be One Of Life's Main Events. And It Is Irresponsible And More Than That, Inaccurate, For Newspapers To Fail To Show It.