You don't always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.

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

I don't see Sarah Palin suddenly spilling over to a wider group where suddenly they go, "Wait a minute, I've heard her message, and now I'm beginning..." It's not expanding it. A politician that doesn't expand from the base is not a good politician. So I disagree with all the talking heads that go "Well, she's a very good politician." She's not! Good politicians expand, and she doesn't.

I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can't truly define why something succeeds.

I've had a lot of movies that didn't get great numbers on test screening, but a lot of times the film was able to survive, or the studio still stayed and supported it.

The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.

I do know when you look at some ballplayer and all of a sudden he is the size of a truck something is wrong.