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.

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

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

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.

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

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.

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