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

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

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.

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

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

You have more and more people coming into the tent with the creative guys [on Hollywood films]. You have marketing and concept testers, advertising people. What you find gets the high numbers is easily appealing subjects: a baby, a big broad joke, a high concept. Everything is tested. The effect is to lessen the gamble, but in fact you destroy a writer's confidence and creativity once so many people are invited into the tent.

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