29 Quotes by Dave Itzkoff

The 'Star Wars' films are known for their exotic aliens, sophisticated robots, sleek technology, and planet-sized battle stations.

One of the first times I wrote about Robin Williams for 'The New York Times,' I interviewed him for a feature about 'World's Greatest Dad,' a dark comedy he starred in for his friend, the writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait.

Often, as an interviewer, particularly when you're talking to highly visible people, celebrities, and it's known that negative things have happened, they don't want to talk about it, or you have to really work up to it. You have to carefully construct the conversation so that they feel open enough to discuss some of those things with you.

Certainly, no studio is going to put its money and its muscle behind something that they don't think they can spin five or six movies out of and build a whole kind of imaginary universe from anymore, I think.

I will say I highly recommend, if you want to write a book also, have a child in the midst of that process because it will really force you to organize your time.

Where would heist movies be without the Big Score - that payoff so irresistible it can lure the most jaded desperado out of hiding?

I can't anticipate what's going to happen to me next, but I'd like to think that I'm going to lead a life that's not really memoir-worthy, and that would be fine!

It is a fundamental impossibility to have a magazine that is anarchic and yet formulaic. Those can't coincide.

When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of this is true, how much invented.