I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

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.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

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.

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.