I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

We're a strange animal, so often destroying what we love for selfish ends, and yet tantalized by the sense that there are other choices if only we had strength to make them. In the politics of 400 years ago, we find the same questions we battle with today.

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.

I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.