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

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'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.

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

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.

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.