I love having made a film and watching it when it affects audiences in a positive way. It was always fun for me to hide in the back of a theater and watch Tootsie with an audience and hear them laugh. And it's gratifying 20 years later to imagine that they still can find it amusing.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.

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.

You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it.

I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.