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

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

Hollywood was set up by a bunch of businessmen. They do not see their job as being philanthropists. I don't think it's a contradiction in terms to attempt to be a good businessman and to also be liberal.

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

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.

If we were a primitive society, movie stars would be gods.

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