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

I have to have a working knowledge of light, and optics, film emulsions and their properties, and lenses, otherwise I can't create the shoots that are the vocabulary of the films. But it is not necessary for me to be a cameraman, I can hire a cameraman.

I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.

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

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

My films ought to be judged on whether they're entertaining or good as films, but not on the political view necessarily. I'm trying to be morally responsible and no more. I don't have an agenda I'm trying to push.

You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it.