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

I make films, and I hope that people come to see them. If they don't, I pay a big price. But I can't make decisions where I would change my own standards or my own taste in order to court the public in some way.

When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.

When you spend your life acting and being other people, as opposed to being the one person that you are, you learn that life is gray sometimes, not black and white. That what you thought was true isn't necessarily true if you switch sides.

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

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.