I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.

There isn't any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn't is a fool. It's a business. Hollywood was never philanthropy. The only purpose it had was making money; the only purpose it still has is to make money.

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

I see my job as trying to entertain you, to be balanced in some way, and morally responsible. I don't want to glorify a killer. I don't want to glorify a rapist. I don't want to do those things, but on the other hand I don't want to lecture to you, either.

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

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.

OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.