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.

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

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.

I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.

Every film I've made has a kind of frustrated love story in the center of it. They were people who saw life from opposing points of view, which has been in every film I've ever done. It had all the ingredients of the kinds of films I like to do.