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

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

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

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

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.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

Three Days of the Condor is still an interesting film to watch not because it's political. It happens to be political. But that's not why the sales of the DVDs are as high as they are. It's because it's an entertaining thriller. In my opinion, Tootsie is a very political movie but truck drivers can go and laugh at it.