I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.

When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.

If you want to make a great sports movie, don't put too much sports in it. It's the backdrop. It's the environment.

Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're not good at them.

I don't take much stock in other people's opinions if I think something's good.

It's nice to be wanted. That's a really good feeling. I'm not immune to it.