We never did just one take. Multiple takes. Many. I did a bunch. Sometimes I do one take. Sometimes I did 20.

There's something that's so basically corrupt about any system in which a good and fair profit is not enough. There has to be more, every year, every quarter, because your stock price has to rise.

You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.

This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.

I was fired from my own television show, CBS's Family Law. It was the second time this had happened in my career, the first being when I was fired from The Facts of Life. I had been grateful to work in TV for so long but had always been chasing a career as a feature writer-director and had completely failed.

If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.