I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

If you are directing, you have the opportunity to put your signature on the bottom of the frame. You have the opportunity to say, "This is what I believe. That is my credo. That is what I wish to state."

I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

I prefer fact to fiction.