I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.

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.

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

I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.

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 love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

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