It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.

You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.