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

When you spend your life acting and being other people, as opposed to being the one person that you are, you learn that life is gray sometimes, not black and white. That what you thought was true isn't necessarily true if you switch sides.

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

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.

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'm not trying to push my political agenda on anybody. I'll do that like any other citizen by giving money to a party or candidate I believe in. I don't mind going out and endorsing somebody I believe in. But when we're talking about my films, I don't think my politics should have anything to do with it.