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

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

Every film I've made has a kind of frustrated love story in the center of it. They were people who saw life from opposing points of view, which has been in every film I've ever done. It had all the ingredients of the kinds of films I like to do.

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

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.

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

All films are political, whether they mean to be or not. Star Wars is political. As soon as you have conflict, which is the key to most films, you have politics. It's just that some are more artful with the handling of politics than others.