I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.

For me, someone like the Eddie Murphy character doesn't live anywhere; he lives on a stage and when he's not on the stage he's on a bus getting to the next stage. You don't really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

I'm a horrible public speaker.

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.