All films are political, whether they mean to be or not. Star Wars is political. As soon as you have conflict, which is the key to most films, you have politics. It's just that some are more artful with the handling of politics than others.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.

All films are political, whether they mean to be or not. Star Wars is political. As soon as you have conflict, which is the key to most films, you have politics. It's just that some are more artful with the handling of politics than others.

What I really want to do is produce. There isn’t much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.