Film is a collective experience, as you know.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

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

I love having made a film and watching it when it affects audiences in a positive way. It was always fun for me to hide in the back of a theater and watch Tootsie with an audience and hear them laugh. And it's gratifying 20 years later to imagine that they still can find it amusing.

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.

I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.