Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

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

The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films over and over.

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.

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.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

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