Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

If we had written Tristan in the true vernacular the audience would have been very small. It wouldn't have even been Shakespearean. It would have been so Celtic you wouldn't understand what was going on.

I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them.

I'm not criticizing Hollywood because I work there, I partly live there. But I'm saying this is the way it is, commerce is taking over art. Commerce has become the most important thing in the film industry. Hollywood is an industry, it's not an art form, therefore they have to address the bottom line. But in a way it's sad when you get a remake, isn't it?