She has inspired generations to wear wide-legged pants, off-kilter hats, and lazily knotted neckties. Style cred aside, Diane Keaton has won numerous awards for her acting (including an Oscar, for 1977’s Annie Hall), directed four films, and published several books and memoirs. Her latest project on the publishing front is Saved, a collection of words, photographs, and film stills that are collaged together into a sort of visual autobiography. On the occasion of its publication, she shares her key components to the good life. —Ashley Baker
Airport: London Heathrow.
App: Calm.
Appliances: My iPhone and computer. Those really aren’t appliances, are they?
Attitude: Optimistic. I am trying!
Bag: Gucci. I love what Alessandro [Michele, Gucci creative director] did with the current collection. Genius!
Bedtime: 10 p.m. Maybe later if I am stuck on a good documentary.
Birthday: I will celebrate your birthday, but I am not a fan of my own!
Breakfast, weekday: Nespresso, banana, red grapes, probiotic drink, and walnut toast—yum.
Breakfast, weekend: The same, eaten at 5:30 a.m.
Child: Both of mine, Dexter and Duke! Not in any particular order.
Cocktail: Lillet Blanc on lots of ice, no fruit.
Dinner, weekday: My famous tacos.
Dinner, weekend: My famous tacos with leftovers inside.
Disguise: All variety of hats and turtlenecks and glasses. Sounds like what I wear every day.
Enemy: Time.
Escape:
Magazines. All kinds—shelter, fashion, you name it. I love to cut out images and put them in binders. This is my idea of heaven.
Excuse: “I didn’t listen to my voice mails.”
Flaw: Anxiety … and more anxiety.
Friend: Reggie, my independent-thinking golden retriever.
Good-bye: Good-bye to my friend Daniel Wolf. You are gone much too soon.
Hideaway: My office.
Hotel: Arizona Inn, in Tucson. I love a historic hotel.
Insult: “Unacceptable.”
Lunch: Nuts and grapes and cheese.
Movie: Documentaries. I can’t get enough.
Nonfiction book: A Visual Inventory, by John Pawson.
Piece of advice: “Funny is money.”
Restaurant: Il Piccolino in Los Angeles. You can’t go wrong with Italian.
Singer: Justin Bieber. What a talent.
Spouse: None.
Second spouse: Count me out.
Spice: Salt.
Television series: Ted Lasso. The entire cast is brilliant.
Theme song to your life: “You’ve Got a Friend,” by James Taylor.
Vacation: Beach.
Victim: Our planet.
Work of art: Collages by my brother, Randy.
Diane’s Essentials
