Film is a collective experience, as you know.

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.

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

You mustn't regret decisions that you make. Because the decisions are made out of your gut in a way and you have to stick with them.

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.