A lot of things just aren't true any more.

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.

Dagwood Bumstead was a great unrecognized hero of American literature. He showed up every day, he got knocked down every day, he never got to eat his sandwich every day, the dog jumped on him every day, his wife was giving him a hard time and he showed up every day.

I always believe you can't kill good movies, because somebody's in some room and will die unless it gets made.

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.

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.