I always do something that I’ve never done before...

If people do not laugh it's not comedy.

I am a man who likes to control things, and if I can't control them totally I will not control them at all.

I encouraged the cast to make up their own lines.

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work

I'm not a woman! Let's make that very clear! Oh I don't know, maybe I am. I am an American woman. Or 65 percent of me is.

A film has to be like a stone in the shoe.