Criticism challenges current findings. The effort to defend one's position can lead to deeper insights or consideration of options previously not considered.

When I started, I was an artist; I wanted to be an artist. I became an actor almost by accident. I acted for fifteen years and tried to produce. I looked for stories that were the story beneath the story that you thought you knew, like 'The Candidate'.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

Whenever there's chaos, there's ambiguity, and where there's ambiguity, there's fear. And fear gets manipulated.

I've been very fortunate in that I've had wonderful relationships with people I've worked with.

Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.

The art of making a film and its content are far more interesting to me than the result or impact.