When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.

My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.

Some actors - you work with them once and don't even think about working with them again.

MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.

I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact.

Well, not totally because over the years I've probably done 2,700 commercials. So, I'm always ticking. And in a way that was a huge advantage because I was able to take my time choosing my film subjects because I wasn't relying on the fear of not being able to work.

What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.