It's always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.

Everybody's trying to hold onto some shred of dignity in the process of it all, and, at the same time, never talking about how they don't have the power. No one has the power. So, you know, producers - we always think, "Well, producers are very powerful," but producers don't really have the power.

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

They're intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they can or can't do.

A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

It's always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.

I play around with human things, human relationships and that, and allow that kind of talk to work in that way, on that level.