I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.

Cinema really lends itself well to big, archetypal stories, you know, classic old stories and you need kind of a weird, big terrain like the Japanese plains for Samurai movies or the West. You need that for these giants to walk around.

The thing is, right now the films don't need to be overtly political to be about our times. We also need films that are just human, that are about people. People need that, too. It's like we need to reconnect to what it is to be human. Not just what our political situation is. That's not what I'm thinking about exclusively. Human content is needed again, as it was in the '70s. I think films were more human than they've been since then.

The best cinema is about ethics.

Acting is a lot easier than people think it is.