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

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

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

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

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.

I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.

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