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

You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and wacko-left liberalism is crazy.

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.

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.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

Obviously its a good feeling to know that something you've done has lasted.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.