A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us.

What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.

I think you should do rehearsal and work at it, but when the camera rolls, you should be ready. Try to make it good the first time.

I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.

We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good things happen.

When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.