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

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.

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.

I'm not going to be an interpreter at the U.N. I'm not going to live in Africa on a farm or whatever, but I am going to see the world through those eyes when I make those films.

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

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