The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
If we were a primitive society, movie stars would be gods.
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.
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.