A biography for Robert Evanshasn’t been written yet.
“When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.”
“History, as taught by schools, has white washed the drunkenness out of the past. It has minimized the influence of drugs on history's great thinkers, and covered up the impact of prostitution and insults on human development.”
“I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.”
“Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.”
“Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.”
“I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.”
“I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.”
“Its not really about the movie business, it's about staying in the picture.”
“I get a lot from all young people. I make movies for young people. If I made pictures for people my age, no one would see them. I hang with young people all the time.”
“In every place there are 100 people who can say no and only one person who can say yes. You have to get a good piece of material to the right person.”
“There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy.”