I took some time out for life.

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

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

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

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

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