Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!

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

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.

Once you read the script, it's the only way it can be.

Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.

When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you.

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.