Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.

I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.

In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.

It's such a cool thing in life to get what it is you want. Most of the time we don't, but occasionally we do.

The truth is, I just want do things that are original and throw an original spin on them.

Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.