Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.

Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground.

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie.

We're going to see a very, very commercial kind of picture-making.

It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.