“A brief experience with a Radcliffe girl got very bad very quickly. I ...” — Whit Stillman Quote

“A brief experience with a Radcliffe girl got very bad very quickly. I was so destroyed by it that I left and went to Mexico for a semester, where I have cousins. I learned how to speak Spanish, which was really important for my life. It was wonderful going to Mexico, learning another culture and a language.”

“There's something really admirable about French culture and an attraction in how independent it is from our own. So, it's odd that in other countries that are very American-influenced - who seem to care more about the Oscars than anyone here does - there's both anti-Americanism and also too much America.”

“If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.”

“The plot of 'Stranger Things' is so simple that even a brief description risks spoiling it.”

“Music and musical instruments were proximal to my life from very early on - I took piano lessons for a brief time, but then my dad had a guitar and when he was not playing it, I would pick it up and mess with it. He jokes that I used to complain that it hurt my fingers.”