If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

You think about taking audiences on a journey.

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.

All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

Politicizing of kids starts with pregnancy, of course. You shouldn't be drinking wine. You can't be smoking, either. The poor woman is poked and prodded and touched and obsessed over.