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.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

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.

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.

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.

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

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