We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

Relationship films are political. If a woman is sitting in a waiting room in an office and a man walks in and sits down, it's a political situation. If he decides to smoke, does he ask her or does he just light up? If he lights up, what does she do? It's politics.

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.