I spent two years telling studio heads that it wasn't a cancer picture. I hate cancer pictures. I don't want to see a cancer picture. There is only one thing worth saying about cancer, and that is that there are human beings in cancer wards.

I always believe you can't kill good movies, because somebody's in some room and will die unless it gets made.

I took some time out for life.

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

A lot of things just aren't true any more.

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.