The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice.

I don't read newspapers too much , just because they tend to make me feel I have a political obligation that I think is a distraction from what my political offerings are going to be if I just make my movies.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.

I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.

I can tell you that my contribution based on my interpretation of the book is unchanged. The other things, in terms of doing the research and following the trail of it, were probably pretty similar to what I would have done then. I think that what makes me celebrate that it took the 10 years is the various other people and contributors that I ended up having on board.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.