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

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

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.

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

[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

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.

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.