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

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.

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.

Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.

I don't think 'Twilight' should be approached like 'Batman.' Because it is an invented kind of world, especially this one, I think it's got to be done with a sense of enjoyment to it I guess more than anything. So I never thought of anything as making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It's a melodrama.

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.