There are movies I've made that I think no celebrations are in order.

We were extremely prescient in that we predicted the Soviet coup before it happened. That was kind of amazing.

Having done, you know, science fiction, I didn't want to get trapped in science fiction. So my eclecticism was my only conscious choice. I didn't want to find myself in a niche that I couldn't get out of.

Sure you can; the only question is whether you do it well.

Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.

In fact, we've entered a world which is arguably much more dangerous than [being] eyeball to eyeball with the USSR.

Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.