I'm a horrible public speaker.

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

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

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.

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.

When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.