Loft Quotes

About Canada - "Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party."

I`m in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it.

I loved Altman. Even though we only made MASH and Brewster McCloud he offered me McCabe and Mrs. Miller and I had to turn it down to do Harold and Maude. But I never got over working under his supreme command and imagination. I adored Hal Ashby - he let me go to the limit and beyond and was always there to catch me. Robert Dornhelm is a fantastic director. I recently did an uncredited role for Joel Schumacher in "The Number 23" with Jim Carrey. I was fascinated by Joel`s kindness and relaxation on the set and yet his eye was constantly focused like an eagle. Wes Anderson is a trip. He is his own planet, a real artist; I just think he has so much greatness to give. His potential is enormous and gleaming, just like his fabulous New York loft.

There`s been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there`s a subway that runs through downtown.

At my utopian film academy I would have students do athletic things with real physical contact, like boxing, something that would teach them to be unafraid. I would have a loft with a lot of space where in one corner there would be a boxing ring. Students would train every evening from eight to ten with a boxing instructor: sparring, somersaulting (backwards and forwards), juggling, magic card tricks. Whether or not you would be filmmaker by the end I do not know, but at least you would come out as an athlete.

This couple was given $40,000 as a wedding gift by the bride`s father, ... His instructions were to either have a large wedding with the funds, or elope or choose a small wedding and invest the money. They had a small but posh wedding and put a down payment on a loft in San Francisco. Because the real estate market was so hot, the loft went up almost $200,000 in value in the course of a year and a half.

They were, I doubt not, happy enough in their dark stalls, because they were horses, and had plenty to eat; and I was at times quite happy enough in the dark loft, because I was a man, and could think and imagine.

(The first floor - the original ranch house - was dark and contained the entry, sitting room, and bedrooms (a master suite had been carved from the old kitchen and bath), while the airy top floor housed a large living room, kitchen, dining room, studio, and loft, and it opened onto a rear deck. It was a design layer cake that wasn`t all that appetizing.) When you walked in on the ground floor, you had no idea what was upstairs, ... It was two totally different houses.