I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.

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

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

Making a film is a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.

I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.

I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.

For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would.