I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because peoples lives dont have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.

I think it would be fun to write about movies again.

There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.

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.

Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.