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

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 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.

I took some time out for life.

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