If it were not for people who stepped forward and gave me opportunities at a time when I had not proved myself at all, believe me, I would not have a career.

But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in.

As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.

I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.

I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.

I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.

I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.