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.

. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.

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".

You know, I can't remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.