“I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and ...” — Alessandro Michele Quote

“I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism.”

“Here in L.A., people really open their houses in an easy way, nothing too complicated. You can go in your flip-flops.”

“I think if you work with different kinds of codes, attitudes, in the end you have a language. It's like within a person. You are not always the same.”

“'Emma' is my favorite Jane Austen novel - one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a complicated, nuanced, irresistible heroine who does everything wrong.”

“No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important if she wasn't just writing about romantic relationships.”

“When I was in my twenties, I strongly identified with Jane Austen's 'Emma' - her human failings mixed with a desire to do good.”