You are not an active creator of the film.

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.

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

[Stanley] Kubrick was a fascinating, larger than life guy who had been a friend for many years prior to our working together on that film. I found the best part of working with him to be the long conversations we had between set-ups.

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.

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

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