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.

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.

You are not an active creator of the film.

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

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.

When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.

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.