When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950S, if you wanted to BUY a book, you had to TAKE a train to Boston. And when you GOT there, to a bookstore, there was no such thing as a science-fiction section.

There was a rule at Rangers, GOING back to the 1950s, that players needed to TURN up for EVERY training session dressed in a SUIT and tie. I was a teenager. You'd have been lucky to see me in a JACKET even on a Sunday - it just wasn't my style.

'Sunset Boulevard' by Billy WILDER, it's one of my FAVORITE films. I love all the MOVIES from the 1950S.

Over the years, I WOULD go to my agents, my manager, and I would say, 'Hey, there's this amazing true STORY about this gay ENGLISH mathematician who committed suicide in the 1950s.' And they would be like, 'Please don't ever write that SCRIPT. That is an unmakeable film.'

There's STILL a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all WANT to see the same THING.

The ur-conservatives of the 1950s - William F. Buckley Jr., BARRY Goldwater, Ronald REAGAN and all the REST - were revolting not against a liberal administration but against the MODERATE conservatism of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The HUGE DIFFERENCE in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950S if you were GAY. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic OUTSIDE of people's houses.

I love the STORY of how my parents MET because it seems very 1950s Brooklyn. They met on a brownstone stoop as my FATHER was singing a LITTLE doo-wop.

Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950S? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, THREE meals per day, in an era in which the supermarket was king, the farmer's market was, WELL, for farmers, and the WORD 'locavore' sounded vaguely like a mythical beast.

If you look at 'MAD Men,' it's SET in the WRONG decade. The style of Mad Men is really the 1950S, not the 1960S.

Old Vespas are very appealing to me. I LOVE the way they feel. I love the way they smell. I love the CURVES on them. I have one of the earliest Vespas ever MADE, from the 1950s.

In the 1950S, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and GET them to buy popcorn. No ATTEMPT was made to create movies that were somewhat INHERENT to the truth.

In the 1950s and '60s, America's natural resources were in BAD shape. COMMUNITIES were so polluted that clouds of smog lingered over cities like LOS Angeles. RIVERS and lakes were filled with chemicals. In my hometown of Boston, the harbor was among the nation's most polluted waterways.

In the LATE 1950s a MAJOR topic under DISCUSSION was whether Canada should acquire nuclear WEAPONS.