It's not going to be contemptuous of wealth and ambition,

[Critics] could not forgive Jane Fonda for doing fluff, like she had to do something with mucho gravitas, which is B.S.,

This is actually a very sprawling, epic movie.

When I came to Hollywood, I was summoned to Madonna 's apartment in New York City, ... and she was talking about All About Eve , and how it's one of her favorite films. Now I've seen it and I own it—I bought one of the prints. It's about how youth is perceived and very little has changed in this youth obsessed culture—it's about the need for approval from others. There is so much going on in that movie. It requires some psychoanalysis. All About Eve is the only film I would remake.

It's a sprawling, epic movie.

I'd just let Wanda say anything she wanted to say. It was great because crew members who weren't even working would show up just to see what she was doing.