I learned early that you'd better know what you're talking about. You'd better realize that certain issues are going to be so hot - no matter what reason, what logic you apply to it - you're going to be met with an opposition just because their viewpoint is different, and there's no way they're going to accept your reasoning. Furthermore, they're going to attack you because you will be portrayed as not being credible: "You're an actor. What do you know?"

We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.

I'm not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn't be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing film.

'Butch Cassidy' was the only film I ever enjoyed making.

I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying.

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.

I can't go into a bar anywhere without someone starting to play 'the Entertainer'.