I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: "I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can't. It's the best film I've seen since Citizen Kane".

I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'

I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so sick.

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

I want the best product for my audience, and if I don't care 100%, who will? It's my name, my likeness that goes out there.

I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.

When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.