Movies are - all I've found is that they're just tougher and tougher to make.

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.

I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.

I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes.

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.