I make films, and I hope that people come to see them. If they don't, I pay a big price. But I can't make decisions where I would change my own standards or my own taste in order to court the public in some way.

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.